Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warned that there would be relatively few workers at first, 6,000 construction workers at peak, only 2,000 permanent settlers after building was complete. But Arco (and Idaho) went right on dreaming of factories in the desert, and daily passenger trains to replace the single coach-and-baggage-car that now shuttles along the Union Pacific spur to Blackfoot...
This week the F.B.I, closed in on Banker Crowe. Getting panicky, he had abandoned his new car, bought another only to abandon it too. He settled down in Daytona Beach, to loll on the beaches and roll around the bars. In a bar they arrested...
...Circus Horse. Sharp at 8:45 p.m., his shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
...Traveler, a combination sedan and station wagon with a list price of $2,088. The rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...
...Morris died weeping for the poor, I'll die denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells got in the way, otherwise Conrad would have taken his place among the saints . . . When I was a little boy I was always playing the devil. My chief delight...