Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Espresso. In Wilmington, Del.. Walton Connelly, in quest of a cup of coffee, rode his motorcycle into the Toddle House parking lot, lost control, crashed uninjured through a 9-by-4-ft. glass window, got a cup of coffee free-after he agreed to pay damages...
...bright, waxing moon rode through the racing cumulus clouds above Florida's Cape Canaveral. At the floodlit launching pad, a gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...bodies into an abandoned storm cellar near by. He drove up to Meyer's house, killed him with one .410-gauge shotgun blast, stuffed the body in a washhouse. Then he and Caril headed back to Lincoln, tossed Jensen's schoolbooks out the car window as they rode...
...strong country free from the influence of foreigners," said Nasser in a brief speech. Orated Kuwatly: "A great day in the history of the Arabs, and a turning point in world events." For hours the greatest throngs in Cairo's history whooped it up as the Presidents rode through the streets, under triumphal arches decked in Syrian and Egyptian flags...
...Bill rode in the second race. He was so thoroughly scared that he forgot to pull his goggles down, could not get his hands set right on the reins and was last out of the gate. ("All I saw was horses' tails.") He finished last. "You see how silly this is?" he asked Corbin. The trainer simply answered: "You ran fine...