Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed hour, Edgar Bronfman, taking no chance of disappointing the kidnapers, loaded the originally requested $4.6 million in the back of a station wagon. It was stuffed into black plastic garbage bags. He drove to a parking lot at Kennedy Airport, then, while FBI agents observed from a distance, walked to the specified phone booth. At 8:10 the phone rang. Using the Raven identification, the caller directed Bronfman to another phone booth, in the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines section of the terminal. He waited an hour with no further word. At 9:30 p.m., the kidnapers called the Yorktown...
...outdoor vacation that requires no legwork at all is Wagon Ho!, a threeday, 5-m.p.h. slog through Kansas over an old wagon trail-in authentic replicas of covered wagons. For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills. The weekly wagon trains pull out from Quinter, 325 miles west of Kansas City, travel 110 miles round trip and, claims Wagon Ho!, never come within sight of a road or house...
...buses began to move again and headed toward Tan Son Nhut-right into the rocket belt. Guards at the gate were firing at the buses. Pillars of black smoke rose from the airbase ahead. Over the radio we heard our own Marine escort ("Wagon Master") ask Dodge City, "What's the situation at the gate?" "Bust it if necessary," came the reply...
...midst of all this, reporters discovered that new Chief Justice James C. Adkins had headed off censure of his excessive drinking by agreeing in writing to go on the wagon. Despite the general debacle, Adkins in his annual state of the judiciary address boasted: "Your justices can neither be bossed, bluffed nor bought." Floridians hope that is true of the ones who are left...
...school when it paid tribute to the fallen William McKinley. The robust Teddy Roosevelt was part of her wedding, so to speak. At least he was in the White House. Ross did Wilson's bidding. One day in 1917 he harnessed up his team and climbed in the wagon and drove through the flooded Nodaway River to sign up for World War I conscription. They needed him more on the farm, it turned...