Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Elizabeth II, clad in a pale gold evening dress and white ermine cloak, at last emerged from the palace and entered the Irish State Coach. Breastplated household cavalrymen rode ahead, scarlet outriders trotted alongside as the Queen was borne to Westminster through wave after wave of band music and past a United Press photographer who got a memorably radiant picture of the young Queen (see cut). At Westminster she was greeted by an ear-splitting bray of heraldic trumpets...
Fire & Comprehension. Colonial Australia, aspiring to nationhood, was full of political slogans, such as "One man, one vote." Billy improved on this: "One bloody man, one bloody vote," he told his electors. He wrote a pamphlet, The Case for Labor, and rode with the Labor Party into the first Federal Parliament...
...about the young lady from Niger who rode on the back of a tiger. The young lady, he intimated, was Ike, and the tiger Bob Taft. *The Socialist Party vote reached its alltime high, 901,873, in 1912. It was 897,704 in 1920. In 1932 it was 884,781. In the same year, the Communist vote was 102,991. Thereafter, large numbers of former Socialist voters were absorbed in the Democratic Party and later in New York's Liberal and Labor Parties. In 1948 the Socialist Party polled 139,009 votes, and the Communist-controlled Progressive Party polled...
...stories were often beats, good exclusives. When the state legislature passed a "sneak" bill to pension its former members-including a $12,000-a-year lifetime pension for ex-Governor and ex-Convict James M. Curley (TIME, Sept. 15)-the Post was the first paper to spot it, rode it so hard that the bill was repealed. The Post exposed a city land deal which would have enriched inside politicos. A reporter visiting City Hospital found things so poorly run that strangers could get free meals; another reporter made off with an $80 wheel chair without being stopped. Another Postman...
Fifth Game. In the fifth, Snider hit his second homer, scoring two teammates. The Yankees fired back with five runs; three of them rode in on Mize's third home run in three days. Manager Charley Dressen let Pitcher Carl Erskine stay in, and he pitched no-hit ball the rest of the way. In the eleventh, Hero Snider sliced a double that won for the Dodgers...