Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Russian fleet from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made the 1924 Olympic squad as a 120-yard hurdler. He also saw action in Palestine, where he won a D.S.O. in guerrilla skirmishes against the Arabs. Palestine taught him "the mind and method of the guerrilla," and introduced...
They found that many workers were imprisoned behind barbed wire, slept at night on concrete slabs and were treated like galley slaves. Mounted "boss boys" rode among them during the day, beating them with bullwhips. Laborers died in filthy "hospitals" where a doctor was seldom seen. Often workers did not see the contracts they supposedly had "signed," had no idea what was in them...
...fate of the American couple who sit in the death house at Sing Sing, scheduled to be electrocuted the week of Jan. 12, Communists the world over last week had an issue they rode hard. Never before has a U.S. civilian court in peacetime imposed a death sentence for espionage, but then, never before has the peacetime U.S. had its security so jeopardized by one ring of spies (the Rosenbergs, Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs), whose work probably shortened by years the Russians' efforts to build their own Abomb...
Marine Milestone. As the son of a prosperous physician in Norfolk, Va., Shepherd had few boyhood dreams of the military life. The family maintained a stable and so did many of their friends, who had farms in fashionably horsy Fauquier County. Lem just rode-and rode. He was sent to Virginia Military Institute because 1) he did not seem to have an aptitude for law (in which case he would automatically have been sent to the University of Virginia) and 2) V.M.I., in his family's eyes, was much better than West Point. Young Lem was a reluctant student...
...Olympics, later shared the top title with England's Lieut. Colonel Harry Llewellyn at the Dublin Horse Show. The intense training finally paid off last week at the National. This week, with three events still to go, young Billy and his old campaigner ("the finest horse I ever rode") were just one victory shy of General Mariles' alltime National record of five individual triumphs...