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    1. London, got into my re-assigned company Ford Prefect, and headed south


    2. Ford hatchback to fish out her trusty little fold-away umbrella but a sudden,


    3. A silver Ford Mondeo pulls in to the deserted weekend car park of the Traveller's Inn at Roundswell services


    4. Dave is comfortable, fortyish, and twenty years away from his Ford Cortina days and his Wolfrace addiction


    5. He curses loudly, looks round and sees Alex standing next to a parked Ford Fiesta, watching him


    6. A Ford Mondeo crawls past the open drive entrance, the driver peering through the passenger window at the names of houses painted on logs and cast iron plates


    7. The stranger sitting next to him in the silver Ford is confirming his worst nightmare, but all he can think about is a hot shower


    8. at a pebbled ford, they wound through rocky fields


    9. As they crossed a pebbled ford over a


    10. This fact is brilliantly described in an example related by the late world-famous psychic Arthur Ford through Ruth Montgomery via automatic writing

    11. millions of Ford Focuses are on the road


    12. Thus, when criticized at a press conference due to the fact that some of his domestic policies weren"t exactly producing the expected and desired results, quipped: „I"m a Ford, not a Lincoln


    13. Back then we could count on a Ford buyer having brand


    14. miscue could send a prospect to General Motors or to another Ford agency


    15. Ford unveiled it late in 1954 as a 1955


    16. There was my clincher, because Ford had just installed safety


    17. simulated 1940 Ford stampings in the same factory that made


    18. I had just bought a new Ford conversion van, a late 1970s or early 1980s model


    19. “Yes,” she said, “it’s a lot nicer than my Ford sedan


    20. All of the girls were gone and it seemed deserted, but there was still one old blue Ford Escort in the parking lot

    21. Dorothy and I had bought this 1941 Ford Club Coupe and had fixed it up really nice with new paint, new upholstery, chrome dash, and a new engine


    22. Just beyond the last ford the woods ended abruptly and a gentle grassy slope led to the foot of the San Juan ridge, which is like a huge rampart thrown up to defend Santiago


    23. The road was muddy, and in places only three could march abreast, so that when the advance guard reached the first ford, the road was choked with closely wedged men for considerably over a mile


    24. A heroic figure of six feet three, Miley stood at the ford, encouraging the men, who moved over the stream into a hell of fire


    25. Pearson's Brigade, the 2nd, 10th, and 21st Infantry, had now crossed the ford


    26. At the ford of the Aguadores River they found the enemy in ambush, and drove the Spaniards back to the town, despite the heavy fire of a battery, which caused great loss to the 34th and the Cubans


    27. Unfortunately, the Aguadores River was so swollen by the rains that it was impossible to ford it; there were no pontoons or engineers, and the troops returned by rail to Siboney


    28. To make room behind the bank, we carried poor Mitchie and several other dead across the ford to await burial


    29. Cowardice is certainly not one of his attributes, for as he rode across the Rio Seco, a party of guerilla opened down the ford


    30. He had the Ford truck dealership in San Jose

    31. His brother-in-law and I installed them on several Ford trucks of all sizes


    32. I parked my little blue ford ranger near the outhouse and left my keys in the truck with the motor running, thinking I would only be a minute


    33. some cherished rear wheel drive cars (Ford Sierra XR6 and Nissan Skyline 2


    34. The older lads always maintained that their 3L Ford Cortina's were the best and my lieutenant's generation (very old) preferred their Valiants


    35. Also look at the f bump on his f head where she hit him with he thinks a f flower pot full of river sand and they can show me the f damage on their car if I care to look (they had a big six Ford Cortina which they rebuilt) for she was an exceedingly f strong Angel with an excellent right arm also being f uncanny accurate


    36. Many a time I said to the story teller more correctly known as an arch liar: “Bring your f van and I will bring my Ford XR6 (or whatever I drove at that stage) and we will test this f theory of yours! You'll f thank me for the fatherly f lesson in physics


    37. Bush is among a long line of Moderate/Liberal Republicans; a list that includes former presidents Nixon and Ford and (would) have arguably included former Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole had he too been elected president, who simply failed to grasp the fundamental importance of lower taxes and increased productivity as the primary drivers that promote economic prosperity


    38. For example President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon


    39. US President Gerald Ford not only refused to condemn the invasion


    40. Ford and Kissinger were both informed of the invasion in advance by Indonesian dictator Suharto during a state visit to the country

    41. Far from objecting to it, Ford instead asked (successfully) that Suharto delay the invasion by two days so he and Kissinger could leave the country and not publicly appear to endorse the attack


    42. It was Kissinger who advised Ford on his course of action: do nothing but carefully hide the fact that you are doing nothing


    43. But in the end, both Ford and Carter decided the goodwill of a dictatorship was worth more than saving tens of thousands, perhaps more, Asian lives


    44. Gerald Ford today is unfortunately remembered for the silliest of reasons, comedy routines by Chevy Chase showing Ford as clumsy


    45. (Ford had actually been a gifted athlete in his youth


    46. ) The second item Ford is most remembered for is his pardon of Nixon for the Watergate Scandal and other high crimes


    47. Ford defended his pardon as needed to heal the country


    48. I went to Detroit and met Henry Ford and helped him out a bit, but not as much as I could have


    49. Not even with Henry Ford, everything he did he knew to do it naturally


    50. Gerald Ford as a congressman had successfully pushed to give the military first strike authority on chemical weapons, meaning that generals could use them without having to wait for the enemy to use them first














































    1. mountain side to the trees where they had forded the


    2. Most of the rivers in this area are rather shallow and can be easily forded, the few exceptions had permanent bridges under construction, so progress would soon be unimpeded


    3. forded the rushing waters and then stopped at the base of the cliff


    4. In the Lammas Lands, they have no need of such a craft; all their rivers are easily forded by a man on foot


    5. As the Englisc jogged slowly away, leaving their horse-handlers behind the column, the uptimers reconnoitered the stream, then forded and camped to brew tea


    6. He reluctantly followed Monty as he forded the river and ran into the shelter of the trees


    7. forded but his mind was too full


    8. The bridge that Balin had spoken of they found long fallen, and most of its stones were now only boulders in the shallow noisy stream; but they forded the water without much difficulty, and found the ancient steps, and climbed the high bank


    9. His sackbut was strikingly colored: pure white, with its limbs, tail, and beak shocking crimson, as though the giant beast had just forded a river of blood


    10. I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right, which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman’s house to be seen excepting one, to be presumed the Parsonage, within a stone’s throw of the said knoll and church

    11. I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right—which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed the Parsonage—within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church


    12. They rode for a long time from one mountain to another, and forded a river, and came out on a path, where they rode through a ravine


    13. They went through the yard and downhill to the river which they forded and came out into the valley


    1. I drove beside them for long distances to find fording places, hoping these hadn’t been washed away too


    2. Passing tall rushes standing sentinel-like close to the canal edge, the moon’s reflection suddenly sprang across the dark water in all of its wholeness, revealing a wide shallow fording place in the canal


    3. wholeness, revealing a wide shallow fording place in the canal


    4. about others? he mused as it turned north after fording the river


    5. Wulfnoth Aelfcild, his garments half dry after fording a rain-swollen stream, walked to where his family sat, his limp exaggerated by fatigue and chill


    6. Buster was fording the river now, struggling in the


    7. In addition, because of increased commerce and population a ferry is no longer an efficient means of fording goods, animals and citizens


    8. Very quickly, Cadman was fording a small river east of Teekwood, seven young soldiers splashing along with him, well behind the relative safety of the Anduain strongholds in western Astrovia


    9. Ned Land went westward up the coast; then, fording some stream beds, he reached open plains that were bordered by wonderful forests


    10. The bed of the stream was there shallow but already broad, and fording it in the dark was not easy for the little hobbit

    11. Four hundred leagues I reckoned it, and it took me many months; for I lost my horse at Tharbad, at the fording of the Greyflood


    12. Autumn burnt the trees bare and ran Dog still farther around, fording creek, prowling graveyard as was his custom, and back in the dusk to fire off volleys of barking that shook windows wherever he turned


    1. This is me in my salad days, when I was selling Fords and doing motivational


    2. butterflies or restoring Model A Fords are crashing bores, but if they are what fascinates a client, listen to their stories in a friendly way


    3. This is especially true if you later have another client who’s interested in butterflies or Model A Fords


    4. Did I think that Fords were the only decent cars on the


    5. The eastern Ordu would each move farther east to the end and the middle of the clear area and look for good fords


    6. My Ordu would gradually move east looking for fords, but not finding one until we reached the western end of the clear area


    7. Then while the western Ordu make their faint across the bridges, the eastern three Ordu would storm across the fords and attack the easternmost camp of the enemy


    8. We sorted ourselves out for a day and then the western Ordu began working on the pontoon bridges while the eastern Ordu checked out fords


    9. A Lebanese grocer in some town within Contra Costa County bought the older of the two Fords, the green ‘68 Fairlane that we brought with us from AZ


    10. 7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan to the fords, and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate

    11. 28 And he said to them, Follow after me, for the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand; And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over


    12. We have our Fords and Cadillacs, too


    13. Broad rivers, some nearly a mile across and signs warning of Quicksand, Use Only Sanctioned Ferries, Fords or Risk Drowning


    14. I found a nice townhouse in Pearce again and got one of those big LTD fords but the older model like xf or something, real big and square for a bizo car and again it was on for young n old


    15. the case in Alma Road, where the Fords lived


    16. Even though it was snowing harder now than when he’d gone into Wackowski’s Variety, ten-year-old Ben McNally had a world record to break and that’s why he ran through the back lot, zig-zagging between the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges—he was getting good at recognizing makes and models—clutching the paper bag with ‘Wackowski’s Variety’ printed in red and blue on the side


    17. It crashes so regularly, that it is like the early model ‘t’ fords: where the drivers took along at least five or ten spare tires or inner tubes for a single outing… plus an entire tool-kit, and a manual for all of the mechanical adjustments they had to constantly re-do


    18. The stage is a mob, with the Fords, the Rockefellers, and new vice presidential candidate Bob Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, all crowded onto the small space


    19. Soon the Fords will board Air Force One to fly to Washington


    20. It would help me across not only the snow, but also the many stream fords and rockslides that no doubt lay ahead

    21. Their heavy carts will wear away your roads and churn up your river fords


    22. What does the priory say to the argument that the earl has the right to tax consignments passing through his earldom, using roads and bridges and fords that belong to him, regardless of whether he has actually enforced this right in the past or not?”


    23. “Ser Joffrey of House Caswell, Lord of Bitterbridge and Defender of the Fords


    24. Forty leagues and more it was, as a bird flies, from Edoras to the fords of the Isen, where they hoped to find the king's men that held back the hosts of Saruman


    25. The host turned away now from the road to the Fords of Isen and bent


    26. the road towards the Fords


    27. They had ridden for some four hours from the branching of the roads when they drew near to the Fords


    28. The riders looked down upon the crossings, and it seemed strange to them; for the Fords had ever been a place full of the rush and chatter of water


    29. 'And when their spears have rotted and rusted, long still may their mound stand and guard the Fords of Isen!'


    30. fell in the battles of the Fords, but fewer than rumour made them

    31. to have left the mournful Fords


    32. They rode now more swiftly, and by midnight the Fords were nearly five leagues behind


    33. Some went off down the highway to the Fords, and some turned away µ and went eastward


    34. Less than an hour had passed, and they had reached the Fords of


    35. So great an army had never issued from that vale since the days of Isildur's might; no host so fell and strong in arms had yet assailed the fords of Anduin; and yet it was but one and not the greatest of the hosts that Mordor now sent forth


    36. Will Faramir get across in time? He guessed it, but did he know the hour? And who can now hold the fords when the King of the


    37. from the Great Gate of the City, north-eastward, the wall was four leagues distant, and there from a frowning bank it overlooked the long flats beside the river, and men had made it high and strong; for at that point, upon a walled causeway, the road came in from the fords and bridges of Osgiliath and passed through a guarded gate between embattled towers


    38. This is no longer a bickering at the fords, raiding


    39. They had not long passed the mounds at the Fords of Isen,


    40. same moment they saw dark shapes coming swiftly on the path from the fords

    41. 'When you crossed the fords yonder you entered it


    42. A man rode in haste from the fords,


    43. Few went to rest, for small hope had any now that even Faramir could hold the fords for long


    44. contested the fords with fell folk of Umbar and Harad who had sailed up the


    45. are very poor, and there are four main rivers to be crossed which necessitate ferrying the jeep over in a boat, apart from a large number of fords


    46. These tracks followed the same general direction, coming together at the fords where creeks, now dry and stony, had to be crossed, and fanning out again upon the other side


    47. We shall encamp tonight at the Fords of Beruna


    48. This was the Fords of Beruna and Aslan gave orders to halt on this side of the water


    49. In his second year in high school he bought two abandoned model T Fords, and using the frame of one, engine block of the other, two wheels from each, he put together a car that would run


    50. There were ancient Fords, ravaged in their upholstery; Chevrolets and Dodges with rusty noses, paintless, with loose fenders or no fenders at all


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    Synonyms for "ford"

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    "ford" definitions

    United States film maker (1896-1973)


    grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)


    son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)


    English writer and editor (1873-1939)


    38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-2006)


    United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)


    a shallow area in a stream that can be forded


    the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse


    cross a river where it's shallow