Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This cowboy was born Issur Danielovitch in upstate New York. His parents were from Russia. And, he says, "I never rode a horse unless they paid me." But in America, anything is possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked...
MINNEAPOLIS--The Edmonton Oilers, behind Grant Fuhr's stingy goaltending, rode into their second straight Stanley Cup final with a 3-1, series-sweeping victory over the Minnesota North Stars last night...
...Budget and Appropriations committees arrived in Honduras last Wednesday, the camp was naturally on their itinerary. Senators J. Bennett Johnston (D., La.) and Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.), seven other passengers and six crew members boarded two unarmed UH-1H helicopters at a Honduran air force base; Johnston and Chiles rode in the same vehicle. But as they approached Colomoncagua, their carefully scripted tour rapidly went awry...
...news that no one else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying, and we all realized that something wonderful...
...afternoon, I rode the subway to the perimeter of Leningrad. There, I felt more at ease with the society; it, in fact, seemed almost suburban to me. A park echoed with the play of busy children. Their mothers sat, watched their activies and talked. This playground had no merry go round or swingset; a train, a play house, a turtle on which to climb...