Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landslide and then into an ava lanche, President Eisenhower kept no chart as Franklin Roosevelt had done on election nights. He depended entirely on the television set and press reports brought in by Secretary Hagerty and son John. At 10 o'clock, as previously planned, he dressed and rode off to the Sheraton-Park Hotel, where the Republican National Committee had set up its victory headquarters. There, surrounded by members of his Cabinet and other close associates, preparing to make his victory appearance before 2,300 cheering Republicans...
...headed for Hartford, despite warnings from some jittery Connecticut Republicans who thought that the anti-Nixon propaganda had created a serious antipathy toward him in the state. They told him not to expect much of a reception, to be prepared for small turnouts and open hostility. When he rode into Hartford's Bushnell Park at noon one October day a crowd of some 8,000 was there to greet and cheer him. Connecticut G.O.P. leaders were amazed; Nixon was reassured...
...ride from the airport to Ike's Beverly Hills hotel, Goodie Knight, who is not running for anything this year, rode in the open convertible with the President and waved to the bystanders. Kuchel rode in a closed car behind. Later, a little wistfully, Kuchel said: "I was terribly pleased today. Coming from the airport, I heard some people shout my name...
Dour and crotchety, Julio Lozano never had any noteworthy popular support. He rode into the vice-presidency in 1948 under President Juan Manuel Galvez (the rebel major's father). In 1954, when presidential elections ended in a no-majority stalemate, Lozano happened to be sitting in for the ailing President Galvez, and seized power. Last August, hit one-two by an attempted barracks uprising and a case of high blood pressure, he turned over his authority briefly to a junta headed by General Rodriguez, then persuaded Galvez to stand in again as chief of state and went to Miami...
...plated goddess of victory driving her four 12-ft. horses proudly atop the 69-ft.-tall Brandenburg Gate. Completed in 1794, the Quadriga of Victory was the most famous work of a minor Prussian court sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle), it remained in place until Russian artillery knocked it to scrap...