Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty years ago a young Arab officer rode triumphantly up the old Hejaz railway beside Prince Feisal and Lawrence of Arabia toward the ancient desert capital of Amman. Last week, still pursuing his old dream of an Arab nation filling the Fertile Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, General Nuri asSaid, 70, returned to Amman to put into being a new union, the Arab Federation, joining the kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan...
...collection box, and the crowd remembers the day of which this is the 13th anniversary-that happy day in 1945 when Germany surrendered, when returning deportees, still wearing the purple-striped clothing issued them by the Nazis, danced in the streets of Paris, and ecstatic women in wooden shoes rode behind the Gardes Republicans as they trotted down the quais...
...varsity track team, along with eight other Eastern squads, ran up against a stone wall of Cornell winning performances Saturday as the Big Red rode to a crushing victory at the Heptagonal Track and Field Championships at Annapolis, Md. The Crimson came in fifth, behind Cornell, Navy, Yale, and Army, in that order...
Friends in the Cabinet. The new President rode through cheering crowds to the presidential palace, where he received the sash of office from General Pedro Aramburu, the retiring provisional President who brought the nation firmly back to democracy. Seated in the ancient red-and-gold presidential chair, Frondizi then swore in his eight-man Cabinet, most of them moderates and close personal friends...
...rebels, all members of the military police led by Colonel Hernando Forero Gómez, laid their plans with care. At 3 a.m. on the chosen night, Forero sent out police panel trucks to round up the government leaders. Major General Gabriel Paris was collected so swiftly that he rode off to military police barracks wearing pajamas and robe, but no slippers. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo's sentry fired a few shots at the kidnapers, gave him time to dress in the dark and head for the back-garden wall. Just as he was about to go over...