Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jawaharlal Nehru was taking his first vacation in three years. Nehru was bone-tired; black circles ringed his eyes. In the cool. British-built hill station of Chakrata, Nehru slept under blankets, went for long walks on the fir-clad slopes, drew loud cheers from local admirers when he rode a pony onto the local parade ground and neatly guided it through a perfect figure eight...
Courtly, patrician Louis St. Laurent rode a campaign train west from Ottawa last week to seek a sixth consecutive term for the Liberal government he has headed for nine years. When the train reached the hustings on the green-touched prairies, out bounded a lovable character rarely seen since the last election: not the remote Prime Minister but "Uncle Louis," the politician...
...When he rode grimly into Los Angeles territory last week, Big Bill Knowland set about doing away with his transparent pretense that nothing political was on his mind. Nope, he told newsmen, there was nothing new to announce concerning his future plans. Yep, he and the missis were planning to take a vacation. And then he would "tour the state from the Oregon border to the Mexican border." Was this to be all one big vacation trip? Big Bill shifted his gun belt. "You can't," he said without cracking a smile, "combine a vacation with a campaign...
...surprised at the famous people who ride these boats--show business stars, Red Sox players. Richard Byrd--the Admiral, you know--after he had come back from sailing all around the Antartic and the South Pole, what did he do? He rode the boats with his grand daughter every Sunday. Shirley Temple too, when she was a little girl. We don't keep a guest book or anything like that, but there have been quite a few big names...
...translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul the Pharisee, who later rode down the road to Damascus to become Paul the Apostle...