Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excuse to go after news at first hand. On one trip to London some years ago, he expressed skepticism about a dispatch that had characterized Britain's man in the street as being interested only in "football pools, bus queues and everyday living," so he commandeered an office car and went out to take his own soundings. On his return, he simply told the correspondent: "You were right...
...Casey, chief of the Nebraska safety patrol: "We may have the feeling a traffic death may have been a suicide, but we need proof." Yet one figure, circumstantial as it may be, stands out. Though all auto deaths have increased by 32% in the past ten years, single-car fatalities that result from collisions with fixed objects-the most likely form of autocide -have jumped...
...car has several inherent advantages as an instrument of suicide, aside from its ready availability. Because it cannot be clearly labeled, autocide not only avoids the social stigma attached to suicide, but also, as Arthur Miller's Willy Loman realized, almost automatically guarantees double indemnity on most life-insurance policies. There is even an emotional release not found in most other forms of self-destruction...
...impossibility for the vast majority of Americans, including students. Reduced to its essence, the CP's argument runs: if everyone were exempt, there would be no soldiers to fight the war. There is a Yiddish retort to such wishful thinking. It goes: "And if your grandmother were a trolley car...." And the question still remains: how do we unite Americans from different classes in a strong movement to get the U.S. our of Vietnam...
...Yippee, F, let's go. My friends are out in the car." The two unclad figures slipped from the barstools into the night...