Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the Tibetan spiritual leader referred to cars when he discussed the suffering induced by change in his speech Wednesday night in a packed Sanders Theater: "We have happiness when we first buy a car. But after we've had it for a while, we experience a great deal of suffering...
...pecked out lengthy sentences describing airplane take-offs, car transmissions and rifle barrels. And of course, he wrote about...
...behind him. It crushed him by the weight of its blow: the need for a plot. He left his typewriter and consulted the books in his den. Certainly one of them should provide a plot worth appropriating. He leafed through his books--all manuals. He had airplane manuals, car manuals, weapons manuals. And of course, a tattered sex manual. His head filled with story ideas, confidence renewed, he returned to his writing desk...
...MacDougald; 62. Earl Averill; 63. rented Chevrolet; 64. Jack Hamilton; 65. Paul Blair; 66. hurt hand while dunking basketball; 67. fear of flying; 68. pulled a hamstring playing hoop; 69. reserve clause litigation; 70. went down a swimming pool slide arm-first; 71. Dune buggy accident; 72. car accident; 73. airplane crash; 74. gunshot wounds as a result of duel in native P.R.; 75. asphyxiation; 76. leukemia; 77. knife wounds; 78. mysteriously disappeared after being let off train just before Niagara Falls bridge--body found in river days later; 79. killed by pitched ball; 80. Gary, IN; 81. Frank Duffy...
They felt uneasy about me, about being close to me in a small car. I think they felt not exactly certain of what I might do next. And I knew they would not have felt better about it if I had told them I didn't have the faintest notion, either, of what I might do next, today, tomorrow, or ever...