Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Presidents have shown widely varying recreational' tastes. Lincoln, Wilson and Truman were walkers. Coolidge pitched hay, golfed and rode a mechanical horse that became something of a national joke. Hoover fished and tossed medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which...
...first eight months as President Dwight Eisenhower rode the crest of the great wave that swept him into the White House. In early September, his personal popularity was higher than it had ever been. Then, quite subtly, the inevitable undertow set in. This week it was clear that the Eisenhower Administration was caught in its first popularity riptide...
...work canvassing her constituents and winning them over to her side. During the first years of Paul's reign, scarcely a square mile in all the 51,000 that formed Greece was left untrodden by either the King, the Queen or the royal couple together. They rode in jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short cut through a mined road. The Queen picked up her husband's baton...
Such skills have brought him due reward. In the 4½ years since he rode his first winner, Texas-born Willie, who now prefers California, has booted home 1,571 winners, won more than $5,000,000 in purses. At a jockey's standard 10%, he can well afford his Cadillac, his de luxe trailer, where his wife does the housekeeping when Willie is on the road, and his small apartment in Arcadia. Indeed, he owns the apartment house...
...made Budapest a suburb of Constantinople. Gone was the conquering fervor that created a tri-continental empire the size of the U.S., encompassing what are now 20 modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing up the best of the remainder. The greatest empire between Augustus and Victoria had shrunk to a small, lifeless inland state in the barren interiors of Asia Minor; its Sultan was reduced to the status...