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Plus Teddy was one of the most face-smashing, rough-riding, bada** dudes to grace the Oval Office with his presence.
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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The United States was a rough-riding ship, designed with speed in mind at a time when the government thought it might be needed for troop transport.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The United States was a rough-riding ship, designed with speed in mind at a time when the government thought it might be needed for troop transport.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Neurasthenia was as well known and accepted as Teddy Roosevelt, with his rough-riding military career, exaltation of open spaces, and his energy-conserving soft speaking/big stick philosophy.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Many there had already heard of and some had even tasted the might of this unusual weapon wielded by the former rough-riding paniolo.
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Many there had already heard of and some had even tasted the might of this unusual weapon wielded by the former rough-riding paniolo.
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About the freedom of play, the British teachers of games to the post-Civil War Americans were not wrong, but in the late innings of the nineteenth-century the lesson was lost on a generation worried about going decadent and soft in the monied comforts of the Gilded Age, losing the rough-riding frontier spirit that swept the series against the Cheyenne and the Sioux in the old Trans-Mississippi West.
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports Lewis Lapham 2010
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Many there had already heard of and some had even tasted the might of this unusual weapon wielded by the former rough-riding paniolo.
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There was grave concern among many that the former rough-riding vice president would be next.
Ashley Rindsberg: Obama's Handling of Terror Threats: Inauguration Day and Today 2010
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Many there had already heard of and some had even tasted the might of this unusual weapon wielded by the former rough-riding paniolo.
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