Word: 1940s
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Furthermore, Germans are not alone in testing corpses in car crashes. During the past 20 years, the French carmaker Renault said about 450 corpses had been used in accident simulations in France. And since the 1940s, cadavers have been crash-tested in the U.S. at the University of Virginia, the Medical College of Wisconsin and at Detroit's Wayne State University. General Motors and Ford continue to contribute 40% of the $750,000 Wayne State receives each year to conduct such tests...
...falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something other than a quaint portrait of 1940s Little Italy is taking form here...
...course, she is quick to point out that the city's demographics have changed since the 1940s. At that time, "minorities" would have referred to citizens associated with the universities, not to racial or ethnic minorities...
...America--"How will it play in Peoria?"--always had particular relevance for Michel, because he was born in Peoria and represented the town in Congress. Michel's life was the very picture of small-town America: He had a paper route, joined the service when war erupted in the 1940s, landed at Normandy on D-Day, and spent the rest of his life in public service to his community and his country...
When he says this to his rich girlfriend by her parents' Long Island swimming pool, Claude has already come a long way from humble beginnings. Conroy's novel first shows the protagonist as a young boy in the early 1940s spending long hours alone in a basement apartment near Manhattan's Third Avenue El while his mother, the rawboned, boilermaker-swigging Emma, drives a cab. Fortunately for Claude, the cramped living quarters contains an old 66- key nightclub piano, a memento from Emma's past life on the vaudeville circuit. The boy begins plinking away and eventually seeks advice from...