Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downers Grove, Ill., the Burlington Railroad's Twin City Zephyr hit a twelve-ton grader which, seconds before, had fallen from a flat car on a westbound freight. The engine and all seven cars were derailed. Two cars smashed into the Downers Grove station. Two died; 36 were injured...
...driving along the Tiber with four friends. . . . Suddenly one of them yelled to stop and they jumped from the car. ... I turned and saw them surround the man we had been waiting for. I watched them punch and kick him in the belly. . . . They dragged him quickly into the car. I slipped into gear and sped off. ... He struggled. ... I hollered to him to be quiet. . . . He was lying in the car, spitting blood. I knew he suffered from tuberculosis. . . . Soon he was just a corpse. ... It was a nightmare. I just began to drive wildly . . . for seven hours...
...slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour, and climb into the tower to man the bell ropes...
...magazine by the modest announcement: "A Harvard Lampoon Parody." The type, the pictures, the features and the make-up are a perfect facsimile. But the contents are about as humorous as Newsweek's own weekly output of printed matter, which can glean only smiles of agreement in a parlor-car to Chicago...
...records, were removed by the Hermann Göring Division. Monte Cassino's librarian and archivist, Don Mauro Inguanez, rescued the ashes of Shelley and the holographs of Keats's last miseries in Rome, smuggling them out among his personal papers in a German military car...