Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pollution-Toward a Cleaner Car" [Oct. 17]: natural gas is certainly a clean-burning fuel. However, for automotive use it must be stored as a cryogenic (supercold) liquid in a large, well-insulated tank. Unfortunately, if you do not drive a large number of miles in a relatively short time, the liquefied natural gas boils off. If your car sits in the driveway for a few weeks while you're on vacation, you may return to find your fuel has evaporated. Not only is this bothersome and expensive, but I suspect this evaporated hydrocarbon fuel may pollute the atmosphere...
Radicals "Oink!" at them and ordinary citizens ignore their pleas for help in the streets. Yet in California's San Mateo County, someone loves the police. In recent weeks, deputy sheriffs have been finding their squad car bumpers plastered with stickers that proclaim PIGS is BEAUTIFUL. But one just cannot please the cops. Assistant Sheriff Eugene Stewart said the slogan is a compliment-and ordered that the stickers be removed as rapidly as they appear. "These are publicly owned vehicles," he explained. "It is not appropriate to express a public opinion in this manner, one way or the other...
...Maryland and an expert on drowning cases, who said that anatomical evidence of drowning would already have disappeared.* Spitz argued that Mary Jo did in fact drown-but not immediately. A pinkish froth around the nose, he said, indicated that she "remained alive for a certain time" while the car was under water in Poucha Pond. "She breathed, that girl," Spitz said. "She wasn't dead instantaneously." Three other pathologists testified that even now an autopsy might yield explicit evidence on the cause of death...
...THAT man there working on his car? You go up to him and say, Hello, my name...
...time had come, and my field manager was sending me out into the world to give away encyclopedias-for nearly $600 a set. The man was cleaning junk out of his car's trunk and he jumped, startled, when I walked...