Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roomy nose cone rode an extraordinary cargo: two young female monkeys, Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
When the 1929 crash came, the closed-end shareholders were forced to dump their shares in a sinking market at prices that had no relation to their real value. Their companies went down to disaster-while the mutual funds rode out the storm. The debacle of the closed-end trusts was helped by all sorts of financial jiggery-pokery; in some companies, officers unloaded their own holdings of shaky stocks on the trusts...
...happier mission, Eisenhower and Churchill whirred off by helicopter to the farm at Gettysburg next afternoon, rode around in Eisenhower's electric golf cart, Churchill wearing a ten-gallon hat, inspecting Eisenhower's butterfat Black Angus cattle. They sat on the glassed-in sun porch discussing the famous battle. Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. Churchill, old Civil War buff, discussed divisions and division commanders with...
...Premier the King picked his court minister, tall, slim Hazza el Majali, 39. Educated as a lawyer, Majali is a Bedouin who grew up in a black tent and rode fiery horses in the desert. His appointment was a gain for the powerful Bedouin families, always the Hashemite throne's most loyal supporters...
...Jack Duluoz, like any right-thinking Massachusetts twelve-year-old, is a track addict. In the Duluoz tenement, on dark winter mornings, Jack scribbles out racing forms, plays the call to colors on the Victrola, stages elaborate handicap races with marbles ("I owned that great Repulsion, also personally rode the beast, and trained him . . . also ran the Turf, was Commissioner, Track Handicapper, President of the Racing Association, Secretary of the Treasury...