Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really de luxe vehicles of 1947 were jeeps and two-wheeled, gasoline-powered scooters. Hundred-mile-an-hour hot rods were still in style in California and some other states, although the law and construction costs were closing in on them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...
...Despite the most honeyed words of Vogue and other fashion magazines, women in all U.S. cities were betraying no sudden fascination for the new clothes with longer skirts. Expensive Scotch and bonded bourbon sat untouched in liquor stores-the U.S. had gotten used to cheaper blends. Detroit used car lots were jammed with new automobiles for resale at fabulous prices, but almost nobody was having...
...lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed him of $30, threw him out of the car...
Coach Mikkola, like a mechanic overhauling a car for spring driving, is currently gearing this Crimson machine from winter to spring operation. Runners have been turned loose on the riverbank, where, despite scenic distractions, they have been working out the winter kinks pretty well. Candidates with a head start as a result of recent indoor campaigning include Harvey Thayer, Bob Toppan and Bob Cameron in the sprints; Al Ruby, Cliff Wharton, Jim Wheeler, Ted Withington, Dave Hamblett, Dave Groshong and Arnie Edelman in the middle-distances; and Frank Gurley, Huna Rosenfeld and Jack Cogan in the distances. Still, until...
About three weeks of grace will be given to car owners while they accustom themselves to the new-fangled contraptions before Cambridge police start tagging violators of the new traffic laws. After that period, motorists will pay five dollars a minute for their illegal parking if caught...