Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned at first hand the slippery and thankless art of Indian diplomacy. He tested his courage when the British expeditionary force of General Edward Braddock was all but wiped out in an ambush in the Monongahela River forests. Washington, white-faced, weak and reeling from a "violent illness," rode for twelve hours before reaching the scene of the battle, had two horses killed beneath him, felt four bullets tear through his clothes, but never faltered in his duty. Divine Providence, he decided, protected...
...became embroiled in a bitter quarrel with the British army over his rank and rights as an officer. He rode all the way from Virginia to Boston in an effort to get due recognition for his seniority over certain English-born officers...
...They killed or wounded more than 100 of the enemy, captured 1,000 more, and with them, 1,000 muskets and six brass fieldpieces. Only three days later they audaciously invaded New Jersey again, and stayed to bleed the British at Princeton (where Washington, rallying his troops, rode unscathed within 30 paces of blazing enemy muskets...
...sultry air lay heavy and oppressive over central Michigan. Scudding up from the south, dark cumulus clouds reared their anvil-shaped heads into a leaden overcast. The flatlands sweltered as the temperature climbed to 90°. Aloft, cool winds raced down from the northern Rockies, rode over the blanketing heat. The black, moisture-laden thunderheads ballooned, formed a storm line which writhed eastward toward the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Suddenly, swirling like water draining from some giant bathtub, the tornadoes spun out of the clouds and swept across the land...
...southern tip of the squall line, Cleveland shuddered under hailstones big as golf balls as a twister rode in from the airport. The twister dragged its tail across the suburbs, skipped to the industrial "Flats," and wrecked a couple of downtown commercial buildings before it disappeared over the lake. In 29 minutes it curved over 12½ miles, opened a half-mile-wide swath, killed eight, injured 300, wrecked 1,871 houses and did some $20 million of damage...