Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swirling, rapids-fast and more than 20 ft. deep, through channels where it normally meanders no more than chest-high on a tall man. There, last week, a loaded school bus caromed off the highway, down a soft, bank, and into the icy water. With it to death rode 26 Floyd County children and their driver, in the worst school-bus accident in U.S. history...
...wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There T.R. ran the Maltese Cross and Elkhorn cattle ranches (see color pages), rode the range beneath springtime stars and winter snow-dust, got sworn in as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff "Hell-Roaring Bill" Jones, and generally gathered in the feel of what he called "the masterful, overbearing spirit of the West ... the possession of which is certainly a most healthy sign...
...Punta Galera, 100 miles from the Colombia border, the young convict embraced the Herveys, kissed their hands in gratitude, then rode ashore with his friends and their loot in Valinda's launch. When they were gone, the yacht headed north to Panama. By week's end, Isabela's commandant reported that order had been restored. And, on the Ecuadorian mainland, ten of the Valinda's fugitive passengers were rounded...
...tests at a far faster clip than the Sunday driver would dare. Contestants took off in the maneuverability trials with wheels screeching, barreled into intersections at 50 m.p.h. and jammed their brakes to the floor in a panic stop. In the passing trials, those whose cars had automatic transmissions rode behind the pace car with left foot on the brake, right foot heavy on the throttle. When the time came to pass, they simply released the brake. Already revving up to almost full power, the engine shot them ahead with a spine-jarring jerk...
...Track. In Baltimore, Charles M. Richardson, 27, piled 1,800 Ibs. of the B. & O. Railroad's prefabricated steel plates onto his horse-drawn wagon, left wheel marks in the blacktop paving as he rode away, got a year's sentence for theft when a judge ruled that the weight of evidence was against...