Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell House. Those who met him found him with a wealth of knowledge and an amazing store of personal anecdotes. Owen Lattimore was once a name of great political controversy in American life, but perhaps the one thing Harvard students will remember most about him is that he once rode a Mongolian horse for 18 days through 30 below temperatures...
Freewheeling. In London, Frederick Wilson went to a police station to report the theft of his bicycle, then stole a bobby's bicycle and rode home...
...sure that the ashes were really Oriental jewels. After chasing the culprits into the middle of a mess of Comanches, Ito waited while the Indians armed them with tomahawks, then dispatched the whole crew with his terrible sword. "Eeee-to," clucked Bond in not-too-angry disapproval, after he rode up too late to stop the sudden justice. But Ito was inconsolable. His master's ashes had been spilled, so he drew a ceremonial knife across his belly in harakiri. ("So big country. My master ronery now. Rost. And onry to brame stupid Samurai Sakae...
Pope John XXIII rode through cheering crowds of Romans this week to take formal possession of the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome-the great, grey basilica of St. John Lateran. Popes in bygone times used to make the short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened the occasion with incident: Clement XIV (1769-74), for instance, fell from his horse on dismounting, only to assure alarmed aides that he was "confusus" but not "contusus." Sixtus V (1585-90) corrected the flattering observation of an ambassador that he had "mounted easily" with the admonition...
...Pope John XXIII rode in a long black Cadillac, and with him rode two of his cardinals-Clemente Cardinal Micara, Vicar General of Rome, and France's bearded Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College. Commented Rome's Cornere Delia Sera: "This is a highly significant particular . . . because John wishes thereby to make a public demonstration of the fact that he means to give the utmost prestige to the College of Cardinals, restoring to it its full powers...