Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Floating Cars. Spearlike steel girders cascaded into the shattered trucks and cars, pinning people against the bank and the riverbed. Others drifted free for a few moments. "I saw this car float past," said Christmas-tree Salesman H. L. Whobrey. "It looked like there were people inside beating their hands against the windows...
...stepped out of the car, and there was this other girl. In red plaid. Who talked in complete sentences. But it turned out all right. She learned to laugh a lot to break up the girl's sentences...
...Fridays she had none left for the following Thursdays. One Thursday she fainted. So she said, Goodbye Playground! Decided against becoming a princess. Now she lives with a Syrian under a stairwell. They keep three cats and nineteen children. The cats, of course, have priority seat-wise in the car when they're vacationing, but the children can come too if they like. It's all extremely laissez faire...
...tracks are losing thier magic. Lionel, which has absorbed A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer this year stopped stopped making trains and is selling off its inventory. Sears Roebuck's current Christmas catalogue devotes tow pages to model trains-but it takes nine pages to describe slot-car racing sets, which provide an element of competition that the trains never had, and have replaced them as the Christmas present that boys want most...
Denise Ann Darvall, 25, had no thought of death when she set out with her father and mother to visit friends for Saturday-afternoon tea. In Cape Town's Observatory district, Edward Darvall stopped the car. His wife and daughter started across the street to a bakery to buy a cake when both were struck by a speeding car. Mrs. Darvall was killed instantly. Denise was barely alive, but only barely, on arrival at Groote Schuur Hospital. Her head and brain were almost completely destroyed. The emergency room called Dr. Barnard. The doctors agreed: Denise could not survive. Barnard...