Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Amy, "Jocelyn. and I rode around in Jocelyn's car and she started telling me all over again what kicks I would get out of blowing up a joint . . . We parked way down the other side of the abalone pier. She gave me the joint and I lit it. Yeah . . . I liked it. I had a ball real soon . . . It made me feel just good, I guess. Kind of silly-like . . . Then we had another and then we just rode around and goofed...
...Most Fascinated." South Dakota was almost the last lap in the marathon Robert Alphonso Taft has been doggedly running for at least 14 and possibly for 43 years. In 1909, when President William Howard Taft was inaugurated, his eldest son Bob, then 19, rode down Pennsylvania Avenue in a chugging auto with his sister Helen and his little brother Charles, 11. Charles (now the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio) had brought along a copy of Treasure Island to read, because he suspected that the ceremony would be "pretty dry." But Helen (now Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, a professor...
Suddenly, the Engle-Stanko spun wildly on the turn into the straightaway, and the right front wheel locked into the guard rail. The car rode the rail for about 100 feet, plunged under a footbridge and hurtled into a screaming group of spectators. Reid was decapitated; two spectators and a track guard were killed; 48 were hospitalized, nine of them seriously injured. Said Charlie Engle sadly: "I could see it coming. Reid was just trying too hard. That's all there is to it. He tried too hard...
...Greeks. On the anniversary, some 40,000 drizzle-soaked Koreans lined Seoul's shell-cratered streets, waving flags and shouting "Long live Van Fleet!" as the general passed by in an open jeep. Beaming, Van Fleet accepted a small Korean flag from a school child in the crowd, rode the remainder of the route waving the flag. At a reception, President Syngman Rhee presented Van Fleet with a poem he had written. Excerpts...
...Arab League, Shishekly wanted the charge defeated. King Talal of Jordan had already offered Shishekly his support. Egypt and Saudi-Arabia would automatically oppose anything suggested by Iraq's pro-British Premier Nuri es-Said. Lebanon soon made it clear that it would do likewise. Thus assured, Shishekly rode off to Damascus, and went back to slapping one decree after another on his country...