Word: steeds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pollajuolo, whom Lorenzo de Medici called "the principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...
...already been stolen by her sister-in-law, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 32. Fifteen years and seven babies beyond the days when she was the scourge of the equestrian East, the dark-eyed, dervish-like wife of the Attorney General had at the last minute daringly borrowed riding ensemble and steed to enter the conformation hunters competition. But after skimming seven barriers with surprisingly unrusty gait, she clipped the top pole of the next one, saw her outsized derby sail across the ring and finished out of the money. "Ethel," reassured her black-tied Husband Bobby, as five of their offspring...
...said a worried junta spokesman, "more than 4,000,000 Turks voted for these people." In remoter Anatolian villages, the junta claims, the peasants still believe that Menderes at midnight mounts a white horse and rides over the country consoling his followers. One night he changed to a black steed, and the next day a notorious Menderes enemy was struck dead. Explained one Istanbul editor: "If we told our illiterate masses that Bayar and Menderes trampled on the constitution, they would think it was some kind of a rug." The junta figures that any Turk will understand Afghan hounds...