Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executed by the New Spain, underground resistance remains. Fortnight ago Major Gabaldon's chauffeur halted his automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...
...hours later police caught the seven murderers driving the Major's car into Madrid. One hundred more suspects were rounded up from the neighborhood of the crime. The authorities stated that they had uncovered a nest of conspirators recruited "from the most sinister Marxist underworld" who called themselves "The Clan of Class Vengeance with Blood." Major Gabaldon's name was claimed to be merely one on a coded "death list" of Franco officers...
...drives madly, with band music going full blast on the radio of his car. He keeps time by jumping up and down in his seat and pounding on the knee of his companion. When he crashed into a police car in downtown Seattle, he jumped out and began dressing down the cops, threatening to have them fired. His face was cut and he had a broken collarbone, and all the time he was taking pictures...
...disrespect for the law has encouraged many a timid reporter. To interview a Japanese arriving on a ship, Smitty once raced the entire length of a dock with both horns of his car blasting the air, scattering police, dock guards, customs officers, longshoremen and the personal bodyguard of the Japanese. Finally he pulled up at the gangplank, jumped out and bowed to the Japanese, muttering and hissing...
...miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...