Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week the bulb-nosed shape of Her Majesty's Telegraph Ship Monarch, world's largest cable-laying vessel, rode slowly into Random Sound off Clarenville on the east coast of Newfoundland and began a new era in communications. After 30 years of planning, seven months of steaming, Monarch had paid out of her massive hold 4,900 miles of copper-cored, steel-armored, polyethylene-insulated 1¾-in. cable, and with the splice at Clarenville, completed the first underwater telephone cable linking America and Europe. Now, for the first time in history, voices could...
...people of Sussex, the decision was no hardship. It was no hardship at all to Miss R.E.M. Bessemer, the lean, sixtyish granddaughter of famed Steelman-Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, whose family home is within a stone's throw of the Bluebell and Primrose. Though she usually rode about in her own motorcar, wealthy Miss Bessemer had an odd affection for the Bluebell and Primrose. "We oughtn't," she told her neighbors, "to look at it as a wee strip of line, but as part of a whole principle." In England there is always an appropriate society for such...
While the West stammered. Nasser rode in triumph from Alexandria to Cairo, getting a hero's welcome at every stop. This was his big moment: bigger than his seizure of power, his expulsion of Farouk, his kicking out the British. Brother Arab nations cheered him too. Nasser has done it again, they said. Arab politicians are apt to consider a well-delivered jab at the West a more statesmanlike act than running one's economy properly...
...Cairo station Nasser was met by a screaming crowd of 200,000 carrying banners and pictures of Nasser. As he rode from the station to his office, chanting, dancing throngs showered him with flowers, hailed him as the "Hero of Nationalization, Hero of Bandung, Hero of Brioni, the first Egyptian to rule Egypt!" Standing at last before his office window-it had taken his Cadillac an hour and a half to make what is usually a seven-minute trip-Nasser shouted his defiant answer: "The noise that we expected arose in London and Paris without any justification except imperialist reasons...
When the long grind finally ended, a pair of Scotsmen who had entered their own 3.5-liter Jaguar, rode out of nowhere to take the grand prize. Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson covered a total of 2,521 miles at an average 104.3 m.p.h. In second place: Britain's Peter Collins and Stirling Moss in an Aston-Martin. Only 14 out of 49 starters finished, but race officials heaved a great sigh of relief. One death and a moderate assortment of bruises, broken bones and wrecked cars added up to what oldtimers have come to consider a "normal" race...