Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City on Wheels. Los Angeles became the first big city of the automobile age. Its citizens worship the fishtail Cadillac, use their cars for almost all transportation (there is one car for every 2.6 persons-the nation's highest average), drive up to traffic lights like ballplayers sliding into second, and regard the pedestrian with suspicion and distrust...
...tough, red-faced private detective named Harry Raymond indirectly did Bowron a good turn. Raymond, who had been loudly threatening to "blow the lid" off the city, walked out to his car, got in, stepped on the starter and detonated a bomb which someone had unkindly hidden under the hood. Bomb, car, detective and all went up in a fearful explosion. Raymond was not killed-although surgeons had to dig 122 separate slugs out of his torso...
...hundred thousand Athenians watched as Sophoulis' casket was drawn to burial by an armored car. "Come to give him the last kiss," intoned Athens' Archbishop Spyridon during the funeral service. The King and Queen stepped up and kissed the casket; Frederika had tears in her eyes...
Hotels & Highways. Newfoundland has a long way to go before it can accommodate large numbers of tourists at reasonable rates. It needs to build more roads and to finish and pave a cross-country highway. It needs a car-ferry on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and many more modern hotels, inns and cabins...
Change of Pace. In Missoula, Mont., a student veteran advertised in the Montana State University newspaper: "For Sale: Excellent courting car . . . Owner now needs baby carriage...