Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great White Marabout. Gaunt, subject to fainting spells, he traveled endlessly about the desert, often acting as chaplain for French troops and walking while they rode camels. On one such caravan trip, a fierce sandstorm blotted up all water holes within the radius of a four-day march. When a brackish little mudhole was finally found, Foucauld said his rosary and made no effort to drink until forced to do so. "Christ was much more thirsty on the cross!" he explained...
Raymond worked. Raymond got behind the wheel and Peter climbed into the back seat; to two other workers who rode along part way, he seemed perfectly normal...
...practiced eye they told almost everything about the ordeal of the distant X-3 and its watchful pilot. The lines of light measured the air speed and a host of air pressures all over the plane. They told the position of wheels, flaps and control surfaces. They rode herd on scores of temperatures inside and outside the engine and on the skin of the plane itself. They detected the first feeble flutters of a vibrating tail or wingtip. Every motion and tremor of the X3, as it rode high above the desert's Joshua trees, was written down continuously...
Juan Duarte still rode high after his sister's death last year. But last week, with the heat turned on high for officials suspected of corruption and with no Evita around to speak for him, Juan Duarte was dumped overboard. The night the blow fell, Duarte aimlessly took in a girlie-girlie show, idly went on to a nightspot. Two days later, in a more determined frame of mind, he appeared at Buenos Aires airport with a toothsome movie actress and reservations for two on a plane to Madrid...
Reinhold had $10.20. He spent $5 for a bus ticket and rode to Chicago. To conserve his money, he spent the first night under a bush in Grant Park. But he decided to live as openly as possible and simply ignore the threat of recapture. He asked a policeman for directions. The cop replied politely. Reinhold invented a new name, Phillip Brick, applied for a Social Security card, and got it with no trouble at all. He went to work as a dishwasher, then as a bookstore clerk...