Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when she was named the winner. Smelling salts brought her to for the presentation of a $7,000 check and a ceremonial visit to the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. Next will come a trip home for Christmas to the family cattle ranch in Piura, said Madeleine, who sold her car to get air fare to Paris to begin a career as a model. Now, she added, "I won't have to worry about air fares any more...
...split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After talking to various eyewitnesses, Thompson decided that one assassin had been posted behind the fence on the grassy knoll, a second on top of the Dallas County Records Building. The other two shots came from the sixth floor of the Texas Depository...
...walnut dressing) even aboard domestic flights. Reinforcing its $2,000,000-a-year take-the-wife-along campaign, United has been spending its own money to promote the availability of reduced rates for couples at the Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains and the Hertz and Avis rent-a-car companies...
Randall Jarrell wrote this bitter-sweet little obituary for himself more than ten years before he was struck by a car one night as he walked along a country road near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His wife and the nun have returned to whisper his praises in a volume of appreciations published this fall. Mrs. Jarrell recalls her husband's enthusiasms for sports cars, Mahler, and a giant cat named Kitten; Sister M. Bernetta Quinn plods patiently through an exposition of "Metamorphoses in Randall Jarrell...
...started with his death. He died, "an apparent suicide" the papers and newsweeklies reported. But Mrs. Jarrell wrote letters to Time and Newsweek, explaining that her husband was wearing dark clothes and "a favorite pair of brown gloves, that the road was narrow and badly lighted, and that the car brushed past him at approximately 45 m.p.h. bruising his shoulder and glancing the side of his head at windshield height, causing instant death." Like Jay in Agee's A Death in the Family, there wasn't a mark on him, but suddenly he was dead...