Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
...second successive year, the U.S. played host while only foreign military teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military horse still has a function and meaning. Mexico's famed Colonel Humberto Mariles, who captains the world's greatest riding team (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948), gallantly announced that "when teams are so equally matched, it is 99% luck." Then he proceeded to show that it was just about 99% skill...
...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
...Florentine Verrocchio is best known for his enormous and powerful equestrian statue of the hawk-faced Renaissance condottiere, Bartolommeo Colleoni, in Venice, and his elegant bronze figure of David astride Goliath's head; also for the fact that he was Leonardo da Vinci's first teacher and was said to have turned from painting to sculpture when his precocious pupil surpassed...
...Aigle sailed slowly at the head of a great fleet of visiting ships through the first leg of the canal to Ismailia, Arab horsemen on shore waved their carbines in the air and performed equestrian wonders. An acrobat walked a tightrope with two babies strapped to his ankles, while whirling dervishes held hot coals in their teeth, swallowed live scorpions and otherwise entertained the crowds. That night there was a great ball at the Khedive's palace...