Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Motor Sports Club won its second team award of the season at a gymkhana sponsored by the Babson Institute Sports Car Club in Wellesley yesterday. Last week the HMSC captured the team prize at the Belknap Hillclimb of the Boston Motor Sports Club in Laconia...
Impounded. In Kalamazoo, Mich., ticketed for leaving her keys in the ignition when she parked her car, Mrs. Cleo O. Brocato demanded a trial because she had also left her watchdog in the front seat...
Squeeze Play. In Tampa, Fla., state highway Trooper K. E. Flint picked up a drunk in his patrol car, stopped and got out to collar a second, watched the first drive off in the police car...
Catching On. In Visalia, Calif., riding in an open convertible during a parade, State Assemblyman Myron Frew graciously waved back at the crowd, finally realized that the wild shouts were not cheers, barely hopped out of his burning car in time...
Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...