Word: steered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these annual shows come 70,000 people, cowboys and Indians from the surrounding counties and states, and here are celebrated the immemorial sports of the West--horse racing, steer roping, Maverick races, broncho busting, and many others that require skill and strength. The stage coach race, established as Mr. Furlong said, before the "Safety First" idea, is another exciting and neck-breaking event...
...generation past, is gratifying, to say the least. The thought that we could for a moment rank above the be whiskered beaux that stare at us out of the pictures of yesteryear had never entered our heads; the most we hoped for was the courage to steer a semi-dignified course down the path where they had trod before. But now that is all changed...
...none the less one of cool determination to direct the nation's affairs according to our well-tested traditions. No short cuts, no untried methods, no radical steps will mark the term of the Republican party. "With malice toward none, with charity for all," we shall endeavor of steer a straight course between the Scylla of "splendid isolation" and the Charybdis of "entangling alliances." It is with faith in our inheritance and belief in the ability of the American people to press onward toward the mark of their high calling that President Harding takes up the reins of government...
Recognizing the necessity of putting Russia on a productive basis as soon as possible, the United States must steer between the Scylia of recognizing the murderers at Moscow and the Charybdis of military intervention. For the United States to steer its course in this way will be of the greatest value to us, to Europe, and to Russia...