Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Kilpatrick is right according to common law, but not according to Chapter XV, Article 25, Oklahoma Statutes of 1942, Sect. 1931, which says: "Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of a building, room, booth, tent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel, or other structure or erection in which any property is kept, with intent to steal therein or to commit any felony, is guilty of burglary in the second degree...
...began at seven. Senator Robert Alphonso Taft got up and faced the day. At breakfast he ate one egg, as usual. Then he picked up his large briefcase, climbed into his car and drove through Georgetown, over Rock Creek, through the nasty, wet snow to his office in the Senate building...
...President. In a corner of his office he noticed one of the brooms which Ohio's Congressman George Bender, for a gag, had distributed to his G.O.P. colleagues when the new-broom Republican Congress had convened. Senator Taft, recalling the nasty morning, took it along. His car would be covered with snow...
There is a story told of a party at the fashionable Sulgrave Club in Washington, which the well-to-do, unfashionable Tafts attended. Taft always drives his own car. He had driven it that night. As the Tafts were getting ready to go, the doorman hopefully shouted: "Senator Taft's car." The Senator laughed. "It's a good car," he said, "but it won't come when it's called." Neither will the Republican Party, as Taft well knows. If he wants it to go his way, he will have to drive...
...just after 7 in the evening. Francisco ("Panchito") Grana Garland, 45, boss of Lima's ultraconservative La Prensa, manager of a big pharmaceutical business, had had a long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel of his car...