Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the hour after arriving, she had smiled repeatedly for cameramen (who took to crying, "Hi, Highness!" to attract her attention), reviewed an honor guard, and read a reply to the President's little speech of welcome. She rode up Constitution Avenue while crowds, estimated at half a million, many bearing Union Jacks, waved to her. She changed clothes hurriedly at Blair House, and drove off to meet a thousand men & women of the Washington press corps who had jammed into the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel to give her the Eagle Eye and the Big Once Over...
Throughout the week, Bill rode in the front seat of the royal limousine to make sure that his split-second timing worked. The first day he slid in beside the chauffeur there was no comment from the back seat. By the second morning, the Princess apparently had done some checking, piped up with a cheery "Good morning, Huskey." The third day, it was "Good morning, Bill." But Bill Huskey's greatest satisfaction was the wide-eyed amazement of the visiting Mounties and Scotland Yard at the thoroughness of his arrangements. Says Bill: "The Scotland-Yard guy and the Mounties...
...August. Unaccountably, he had not been given the usual security check, but his shy manner and rare smile had won the confidence of the household. He was even allowed to tidy up the fussy Commissioner's air-conditioned bedroom. Last month le petit Tho took a day off, rode a bus 36 miles to Banam, where he had a secret session with an organization called the Viet Minh Assassination Committee...
...international competition was the keenest ever, the revived U.S. team facing the top equestrian talent of Brazil, Mexico, Ireland and Canada. Appropriately, Colonel Humberto Mariles, captain of the Mexican Army team, rode off with the show's first big award, the President of Mexico Trophy, for traversing a 13-jump course on three successive mounts...
...fair football player, himself, once again shares top honors for influencing Bob this time in bringing him to Harvard. Willard, after a fine career at end for Walnut Hills, decided to go to the local college, the University of Cincinnati. He made the U. of C. team easily, but rode the bench several times a season when the Bearcats would play Southern schools. Because Southern schools insisted that he could not play, and Cincinnati acquiesced. Willard often wondered whether he had made the right college choice...