Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Checkmate. In Detroit, Vernon Dobson bought a car with a worthless check, sold it at a profit to cover the check with cash, discovered that he had been given a bum check himself...
What woman? The woman, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina! Not only stolen-kidnaped! Listening, the cop gathered that he was being informed of an international incident. Who had taken her? Reds! They had come in a big car. They had demanded the woman! They had driven...
...Today," he said, "I took my vice consul, and my driver, and came there. I found her in the kitchen . . . Came a few men and took her hand and tried to pull her . . . Three men began to crack the car and damage it. But she still cried, 'Take me home! Take me home!' White Russian bandits, few big men, began to throw some stones. But we got her in the car and we came here...
Because most of Dunbar's students come from low-income homes and many have to leave before graduation, Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...snarl is blown back with the wake. The air ducts grumble below the floor; a ventilator hisses. When the plane is up to speed, the airstream rushing over the canopy makes a moderate, roar. There is hardly any vibration. Experienced pilots say that the plane handles "like a kiddie-car." When it makes a "low pass," flying close to the ground at 550 m.p.h., objects far ahead seem to vanish before the eye has time to take a second look...