Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With crops in good shape and the peso at its perkiest in years, Mexico was in fiesta mood for President Miguel Alemán's fourth annual state-of-the-nation message last week. As the President rode to the Chamber of Deputies at the head of a 50-limousine caravan, office girls showered him with red, green and white confetti. When Alemán entered the Chamber, 50 men from the musicians' union rose and thundered the national anthem. Outside, thousands of Mexicans saw and heard their President speak over hundreds of television sets installed in cantinas...
...cabinet through which they could pass-with a pleasantly uneventful interval of waiting in the seats inside-from one aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone of the engines and the sigh of ventilating...
Amiable, well-authenticated cat tales of this type no doubt help to give cats a good name. Other case histories, less authoritative, are also less impressive. A good example is that of the cat who, observing that some starlings nervously avoided him but were unperturbed by cattle, rode into action crouched on the back of a cow. To the same category belongs the cat who specialized in rabbiting and who one day caught a black one. This, according to the story, he hastily brought home to his mistress, "clearly recognizing it was an unusual specimen"-and also hoping, no doubt...
...evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
Born near Pyongyang, he is said to have been trained at China's Whampoa Military Academy, and later in Moscow. His original name was Kim Sung Chu. Reason for the change: in 1945 he rode into Korea with the Red army, whose commissars billed him for a few days as "the Korean hero, Kim II Sung." There had been an authentic guerrilla hero named Kim II Sung, who disappeared after the 1919 independence movement. When Koreans pointed this out, the Russians dropped the hero legend, but Kim kept the name. Measure of his success in Stalinizing North Korea...