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Word: cavalrymen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anybody thinks bicycles are having a boom now, Robert Smith, professor of history at California State College, is prepared to prove that it's mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Costs and Colors of Christmas | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

Whittled at, mocked, its history rewritten, the American West has taken a battering in recent years. The myth of the 19th century frontier-brave mule skinners and noble cavalrymen bringing civilization across the Great Plains-is dying out like the buffalo. This discovery, leaving a painful hole in America's stock of self-images, helps explain the recent surge of interest in 19th century frontier art. The latest evidence of it is a delightful show called "The American West," which drew crowds to the Los Angeles County Museum through the spring and will open June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Draw, Pardner | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...well as pommes frites. Hulking busts of Lenin sold for $4.50. There was a 15-hour marathon in the central committee tent where party leaders held political discussions with all comers. A horse-drawn street theater had a cart full of guillotine-bound "Communards" hurling defiance at costumed cavalrymen; the purpose was to commemorate the 1871 Paris Commune, which controlled the city for 71 days before its primitive brand of Communism was crushed by troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Communist Funfest | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops prepared to slice into new infiltration routes that the Communists had been trying to extend from the Cambodian seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Indochina: A Cavalryman's Way Out | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...built helicopters landed beside a palace on Gezira Island, the original headquarters of Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. From the lead copter, a flag-draped coffin was unloaded and strapped to a gun carriage pulled by six black horses. A funeral cortege formed, with a troop of lance-bearing cavalrymen leading the way. Six military bands, the morning sun glinting richly off their brass, struck up the melancholy strains of Chopin's Funeral March. Twenty-seven visiting chiefs of state, eleven Prime Ministers and 22 other foreign delegates assembled behind the gun carriage. The first rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nasser's Legacy: Hope and instability | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

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