Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neighbor. In Seattle, as Australian Ambassador Howard Beale entered the city in a police-escorted limousine, a man in another car drew alongside, gestured for Beale to open a window, shouted: "I thought you'd like to know there's a state cop following...
...system: "You cannot start to do a new thing and hit it right the first time." But within eight months, by disregarding all the rules of the day about electric motors and storage batteries, he had developed the self-starter. Cadillac bought it, and within a year car sales were doubled...
...rewards of the switch to the middle class are enticing. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Erasto Urbina, once a barefoot peon on a southern coffee plantation, now runs a store that amply provides for his family of 8. Juan Carrasco, bellhop and car-parker at the capital's Continental Hilton, proudly drives his own green 1947 Plymouth...
...buddy, how can I get this car...
Many so-called "unconscious and irrational" motives are really quite the opposite, Bauer went on. "I don't see why a man is more rational to buy a car for transportation than for status, for instance. Use of appeals to this type of motive have, moreover, brought them to the center of consciousness," Bauer argued...