Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the world, as it was on the maps of the Middle Ages. As Holy Week starts on Palm Sunday, brown-robed Franciscan monks and white-robed Dominicans march in a long procession of the faithful, each with his own palm frond, along the route that Christ rode on his donkey from the village of Bethany up over the Mount of Olives, past the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane and through St. Stephen's Gate into the Old City...
...TIME by the research firm Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc.* The poll, of course, does not attempt to predict future attitudes toward the President and his policies. In many areas Reagan's sliding ratings match those of Jimmy Carter at a comparable period in his presidency. Carter rode the roller coaster of public opinion up and down through most of his four years in office...
Even in last week's peaceful gathering, there were inevitable reminders of the strife that now rages through the tiny, heavily populated country. As party officials raised their arms to wave or flash victory signs, their shirts rode up to reveal the black barrels of pistols-standard equipment in a campaign in which threats of death vie with leaflets and posters as tools of political persuasion...
Just as the buzzer sounded, Ken Code rode Pearson into the sideboards and the two went down in a heap. As the teams skated off the ice to the lockerroom. Badger John Newberry took a cheap shot at Code and before it was over five players were assessed with penalties, all at 20 00 at the first period...
...delegation, the ninth to visit Hanoi since the war ended almost seven years ago, was headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage. The group was greeted at the airport by a line of smiling Vietnamese officials, then loaded into several black Volga sedans. As they rode toward the capital, the Americans noticed that much of the countryside had the appearance of a nation on military alert; antiaircraft guns loomed over bomb craters, and camouflaged radar antennae poked their way out of thatch-roofed huts...