Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Christmas Eve to mid-afternoon of Dec. 25, car-happy Los Angeles County counted 24 dead in 340 major traffic accidents. The national Christmas traffic toll...
Flats & Splits. Since they rode in a borrowed Ford together from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1939, the two Jacks had felt that they would have a showdown some day. Kramer, then 18, did the driving, was arrested twice and spent one night in a Nebraska jail. The car burned out a bearing, lost a rod and had plenty of flat tires. There were additional refreshment stops for Bromwich, 20, who became acquainted with banana splits and ate four or five a day. That was the year that Bromwich and Quist upset the U.S. team and took the Cup home...
...Violence. Buchsbaum, who thought all labor leaders were racketeers, was first impressed when union president Samuel Laderman prevented violence when strikebreakers drove a car through pickets. He was further impressed when a friend whose plant Laderman had unionized told him "that Sam was a real human being. He liked opera. He disliked fights...
Queen Elizabeth, returning home in a car after a dinner party, had to be escorted home by a corps of bobbies with torches (British for flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...
...Shed did it again, and won his third U.S. championship. His owner, who once turned down $10,000 for him, will collect almost that much next year from Shed's stud fees. Said an admiring voice in the gallery: ''Handling that dog is like driving a car...