Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...
...Faithful. In Cape Town, South Africa, a farmer turned his 15-year-old car in on a shiny new model, wrecked it the next day in a collision with the old auto and its new driver...
...dressed in a newly starched khadi loin cloth, with a white cotton shawl over his bare shoulders, drove in a new, green Studebaker to Jinnah's stucco house. Acting the part of Qaed-e-Azam (Head of the Nation), Jinnah sent his secretary to greet Gandhi at his car, waited inside the house for his first private meeting with the Hindu leader in three years...
Though he had never wilted before, high-handed Avery Brundage melted before Canada's hot wrath. He was ready to admit after a day or so that "extenuating circumstances" might even permit Barbara Ann to keep her car. But Canada's pin-up girl was taking no chances. Said she: "It would be selfish of me to keep the car and lose a chance to bring honor to Canada...
What would the people of Ottawa do with it-her canary-colored Buick? Said Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis: "I guess we'll put it in a museum with a plaque saying that due to certain people this car had to be returned to the city by Barbara Ann Scott . . . Ottawa's most beloved daughter. And I'm not joking...