Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will try not to fail you.' " As the doomed cavalrymen rode past, an appalled cockney rifleman yelled, "Strathcona's Orse! You'll be bloody bully beef if yer don't get art the way!" Flowerdew and half his men were killed. But they took the ridge and saved Amiens-at least for a while...
...politics fashioned by the media and the polls. He cannot automatically be condemned for conducting his presidency like a campaign and his campaign like a president. More dangerous are the roots of his present posture, a stance much different from that of four years ago, when he rode a wave of superficial optimism into office. Carter is practicing the politics of pessimism, needlessly, and his very negativism may sweep him out of the White House--his crisis of confidence supplanted by Ronald Reagan's crisis of overconfidence...
...oncoming storm. "It's been 19 years since a hurricane crossed the coast," said Cecil Palmer of the National Weather Service's Houston office. "We have many newcomers who don't know what a hurricane is all about and many oldtimers who feel, 'Well, I rode it out before and I can do it again...
...four months to 27½; and Air Express International, a cargo airline that has gone from 6½ to 16½. The stock group that has been relatively weak of late has been oil firms; they led the market in April and May, but some investors who rode those stocks up have taken their profits to put them in cheaper shares...
...tried to stamp it, or something like it, out by banning kissing. With the sexual revolution of the 1960s, herpes broke out of its confines as a venereal disease that was thought (incorrectly) to afflict only the "licentious" lower classes. Suddenly, "viruses of love" infected entire college dormitories and rode the waves of rising divorce and crumbling monogamy...