Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note, under National Affairs [TIME, Aug. 12], that our recent Congress has allocated $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees. Swell, I certainly am in accord with the idea. What I would like to know is, isn't that a rather excessive amount? Figuring $1,600 to a car, it would mean . . . that there are 18,750 amputees to receive cars. Are there that many amputees...
...American Legion convention shook Boston to the marrow of its Brahmin bones. The car-tipping and bonfires, the water-bombs zooming from windows had moved the Harvard Crimson to shudder, "worse than a drunken football crowd." Local rowdies helped tear up the town in the boozy wake of World War I Legionnaires...
When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...nightfall, the sandpile had taken on fresh interest. Dark, and obscured by the ocean mist, it made a wonderful hazard for cars. A little crowd gathered hopefully to watch the fun; two soldiers on the curb held hands with their girls; some carpenters sat by a small fire and listened while one played a guitar; couples out "footing" (walking) paused and leaned against a nearby wall. TIME Correspondent Donald Newton looked on from his balcony. Everybody laughed as car after car swerved just in time to avoid hitting the sandpile...
...name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...