Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter, he deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit his quarry's throat, and discovered that he had done in his own horse...
...Korean children lined the streets to see him driven into town from the city airport, and he returned the compliment by ordering his car stopped time & again, getting out, and giving them flowers taken from his wife's bouquet. When he was driven into Tokyo (where he later rode in a gilded state coach to see the Emperor, and publicly announced that Japanese disarmament had been a U.S. mistake), he repeated the process, and shook hands, smiling, with dumfounded spectators along the curbs...
...Franklin, for instance, who invented the bifocal, the Franklin stove, and said all those laboriously droll things in Poor Richard's Almanac"? Not so, says the hero; it was a loyal mouse who gave Ben the big idea in every instance, and who furthermore rode the kite the day electricity was discovered...
White cleared every scrap of paper out of his office, packed his goods in crates, and rode off in the truck that carried the crates. Eleven months later White was called to testify before the New York federal grand jury, which was investigating Communist infiltration. The jury did not indict him. That was 20 months before Chambers identified the pumpkin-paper memorandum in White's handwriting...
...cheering is considered improper in austere Ottawa). After he placed a wreath of red carnations and white chrysanthemums on the Cenotaph, Canada's war memorial, Ike joined Mamie and the Governor General in an open Cadillac, tucked a lap robe around their knees and rode off through the city to Rideau Hall, the Governor General's official residence...