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Word: carful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambition. In Atlantic City, three-year-old David Cavanaugh started an empty milk truck, crashed into a car, ricocheted into another, smacked into a house, got out unhurt, declared: "I want to be a milkman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...coupe. A salesman drove them around a while before parking at the side of the road. The buyers asked the price. Said the salesman, blandly: $2,150. While the salesman filled out a Massachusetts bill of sale, the two buyers cheerfully peeled off enough bills to pay for the car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Circus Day | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...macabre series of traffic don'ts called Inviting the Undertaker. The subject was closer than ever to Publisher Joseph M. Patterson's heart after the Sunday afternoon in 1939 when his brilliant managing editor, Harvey Deuell, suffered a heart attack while driving to work, swerved his car into a cable fence and was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death at the Wheel | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Jean Tennyson, blonde star of radio's late Great Moments in Music (and wife of the sponsor's president, Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America), had a frightening moment in a friend's car. The door swung open and the singer, riding with the friend's 18-month-old son on her lap, landed in the street. Plump Soprano Tennyson got a bunged-up face; the baby landed unharmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Homing Pigeons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...terrifying "powers" that control the destinies of man. Sometimes these omnipotent powers assume human shape. They become "authorities," "officials," "advisers"-suave, tough men & women with hypodermic syringes who may rudely invade your own home at any moment, pack your suitcase, and drive you away to "prison" in a closed car-while the husband who once told you he loved you looks the other way, or assists the invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Powers That Haunt | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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