Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pennant on the conning tower fluttered gaily. The diminutive Rickover had to strain to get a look, when the Nautilus splashed into the icy Thames and floated away in flotsam from the launching cradle. As four tugs fumed up and nudged her toward a fitting-out dock, the Nautilus rode high in the water (her reactor and other heavy parts have not yet been installed). As she disappeared out of sight of the stands, the sun suddenly disappeared with her and the fog closed in again on Groton...
Died. Walter Edward ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, 78, legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets...
...West Germany walked up to two doors to the future. Which would they choose? Western diplomats, disheartened by the fall of Schuman and De Gasperi, guessed timidly that Adenauer and the dream of Europe would squeak through-but barely. But the old man in the high, starched collar simply rode up to his Rhondorf home, went off to Sunday Mass, left orders not to be disturbed, and at day's end turned in for a long night's sleep...
...Wavells have fought Britain's battles for almost a thousand years. Their ancestors served William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings; French members of the family were Crusaders in the same Middle East deserts where centuries later Field Marshal Wavell rode with Allenby. Wavell of Cyrenaica was the one-eyed professional soldier, author and poet who smashed the Italians in North Africa (1940) only to lose to Rommel, who commanded Singapore until it fell (1942), governed India as viceroy (1943-47). His fate had been to fight the early delaying actions when Britain was behind. Fighting...
...gear of war. Supporting the transport and LSTs was the largest fleet concentration in naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with forming a bristling picket fence around the other ships...