Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headlights." For the President of the U.S., the week was by no means all guests bearing gifts. One day he rode 25 miles up to Camp David to meet with the National Security Council. Most of the NSC members were flown to the camp, as the Cabinet was flown the previous week, in Army helicopters. (Asked what he thought of the Army's helicopter technique, General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, waved a big cigar and cracked:"They'll learn after a few years.") The meeting was on military matters- strength of forces and budget. Next...
...week's end the President was out in the open again, carrying a .410 gauge shotgun along a hedgerow, on the hunt for whatever legal game he might flush. Safely behind rode Grandson David Eisenhower in the pony cart...
...Berlin last week the cold war got perceptibly hotter. It all began when two junketing U.S. Congressmen, Massachusetts Democrat Edward P. Boland and New York Republican Harold C. Ostertag, motored into East Berlin to see one of the standard tourist sights: the ponderous Red army war memorial. They rode, accompanied by a U.S. Army Lieutenant, in a radio-telephone-equipped Army sedan. East German Volkspolizei approached the parked car and forced the party at pistol point to follow them to a nearby guardhouse. From there the Congressmen were taken to Soviet headquarters at Karlshorst, and were told they had violated...
...next round the champ took another pasting. Once more he rode it out. DeMarco was frantic. He had tagged Basilio with the best he had, and Basilio kept moving forward for more...
...stamping out the Baptists. When two Baptists were mobbed and brought to trial for disturbing the peace ("They cannot meet a man upon the road," said the prosecuting attorney, "but they must ram a text of scripture down his throat!") a young Episcopal lawyer named Patrick Henry rode 50 miles to defend them...