Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filth, surly attitude of so many passenger-train employees (from ticket agents to dining-car waiters), the nonfunctioning of schedules, and the unwillingness of management to work with local and state communities to improve this mess, suggest that the railroads should be forced to sell their passenger service to market-oriented entrepreneurs, or begin to show that they can provide this needed utility. I hope that there will be new efforts and renewed vigor in tackling the problems of America's third great passenger system...
...nights your President prays." Thanks to Johnson's restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman in the Sea of Japan, 95 miles off South Korea-was treated as if it were a two-car collision on Route 66 and stirred little concern...
...wrestled until she "saw Freddy draw his arm back." She went to the living room, picked up the telephone, and then "Freddy grabbed me from behind. I dropped the phone and passed out." When she came to, her husband's body was stuffed in beside her in the car. "I couldn't figure out where I was. I yelled, 'Where am I? Help me!' Then I heard Freddy's voice say: 'You're in the trunk. Dad is dead, and I'm going to kill...
...have to be dropped. And obviously, said Sir Donald, "we have to move toward the General Motors type of integration and more new models." But it will require heavy investment ($360 million, according to industry estimates) and perhaps three years before B.L.M. will be ready with its first new car. Between now and then, the newly merged company's U.S. competitors in Britain-Ford, Vauxhall (G.M.) and Rootes (Chrysler) -are not going to stand idly...
...network of slave profiteers began with black African wheeler-dealers whose names read like a roster of fly-by-night used-car salesmen-Grand Trading Man Ben Johnson, Willy Honesty, Yellow Will. But before long, European heads of state were getting their share of the action by way of taxes, if not by direct participation. When Queen Elizabeth heard about the first African voyage of John Hawkins, she called it "detestable" and prophesied that it "would call down vengeance from Heaven upon the undertakers." When she learned how handsomely the shareholders made out, she invested in the second expedition herself...