Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paddle-wheel steamer, Fenella, took aboard 600 soldiers, then was hit by a bomb. Most of the survivors were evacuated onto another paddle steamer, Crested Eagle, but a dive bomber set it afire, and most of the men aboard perished. A hospital ship marked with large red crosses rode at anchor off the beach all one day until a bomb went down its funnel and scattered bodies all over the harbor...
...some strange fate Helms rode in the car just behind Adolf Hitler's that day in Nuremberg. Helms would later become director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but then he was a 23-year-old United Press reporter lucky enough to get a glimpse of history being forged. For 20 minutes, Hitler stood beside his SS chauffeur in his special Mercedes-Benz, engulfed in the frightening adoration that he ignited. Hitler's car moved slowly; his bodyguards in other vehicles patrolled at the sides, automatic weapons laid out on the car floors. The bareheaded Hitler, so ordinary...
Eric laughed, quickly and loudly. "Yeah, all right, I get it." But the man turned back to face the buttons. We rode to his floor in an uncomfortable silence...
...kind of walking computer. Even the lawyers would call me occasionally because I seemed to have everything on file." Only after the famous "smoking gun" tape, released just days before Nixon's resignation, did Sawyer become convinced that the end was inevitable. She was one of the stalwarts who rode on the plane that carried Nixon to San Clemente after his farewell speech. What explains her loyalty? She ponders the question quietly for a few seconds. "When someone's life is shattered," she says, "there is only humanity...
When Dukakis tried to bring the budget into balance by slashing state aid to cities and towns, the state Legislature over-rode his veto of the aid. The House of Representatives did it unanimously. That has to hurt...