Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week that might have been plucked out of the 1952 campaign. President Eisenhower moved fast, covered 2,000 miles in the space of 48 hours. He spoke often to cheering audiences. Perched on the back seats of shiny convertibles, he rode through streets swirling with confetti and draped in bunting, waving to the crowds. He patted the backs of deserving candidates. In flight, he worked on speeches, changed his clothes, catnapped. For Ike, it was more than a flashback to 1952: it was the harbinger of things to come. In the next seven months, until the elections...
With Tryfus' patrol, I rode off in an armored halftrack, preceded by a jeep. The jeep's probing searchlight scanned the countryside. "Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
...much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges of the '30s but was the flamboyant and savage state prosecutor of their victims. He became a diplomat in 1940. Stalin's death brought him a reduction in rank (from Foreign Minister to his present post) but never stirred a hair of his snowy...
...straight years, they've rode the trail...
From across the Canadian border a Confederate band rode into St. Albans, Vt., robbed the bank and made its president swear "loyalty" to the Confederacy. In St. Louis, Federal boats were burned at the levee. In New York City, 15 hotels and Barnum's Museum were set afire in a vain effort to burn the whole city to the ground. In Louisville there was an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Vice Presidentelect Andrew Johnson, and in Chicago, Hines himself arrived to direct "an armed rebellion of thousands of Copperheads." What happened there was to happen many times to Hines...