Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marble-walled showroom not far from the Arc de Triomphe, a Volkswagen representative matter-of-factly calculated that his company now accounted for 40% of the light utility trucks sold in the Paris area. Across the Rhine, Germans were snapping up Fiats and Alfas at a clip that set an Italian auto executive to chortling, "So the Germans thought they were the only ones who could export cars!" In the bustling English Ford agency in Genoa, one of the scores of Genoese awaiting delivery of a new Anglia stabbed his ringer at the word "future"' in a poster proclaiming...
...javelin of steel, its streaking taper ending in a needle tip, that seems to arc through the air even while lying still...
...front terrace will be open to the street though the student rooms themselves will be largely protected by several clusters of trees. If further expansion of the university becomes desirable this final terrace will become the site for a third college of the Saarinen design which will complete an arc created by Stiles and Morse...
Roaring into a hell-hot 3.443 m.p.h.. it peaked into a graceful arc. seemed to hover uncertainly for a brief moment, then hurtled downward. Minutes later, its tail skids carved a high rooster tail of dust in the wind-slicked silt of Rogers Dry Lake in California. The plane stopped. "Well." said Test Pilot Joe Walker as he threw off the switches in the cockpit, "there's that one for today." In his X-15, Walker had just streaked to a new altitude record for manned planes: 246.700 ft.-46.7 miles above the earth...
...thoroughbreds paraded to the post, all eyes were on Ridan. His biggest competition, the early favorite Sir Gaylord, was out of the race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza stood bolt upright...