Word: dragooned
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...next morning, its arrogant nose was pointed at the Rockies. The morning's flying was serene enough, over Texas to Tucson and Cochise, Ariz.; but in the late afternoon the mountains were reached, over which a wind was whistling jauntily. High in air climbed the dirigible, entering the Dragoon Pass; there was a great peak just as high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around...