Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed not to want a change. Thus the party went into last week's election with an almost smug unconcern; it staged no rallies, and its leaders in government even refused interviews. The 14-year-old Progressive Liberal Party, however, campaigned on all the main islands, plastered car and truck bumpers with stickers, and tacked up posters everywhere...
...Mohave furnaces will gobble up the equivalent of two 100-car trains of coal each day when they begin operating in 1970. Peabody will mine the coal in the Black Mesa area of northern Arizona, crush and convert it to slurry by adding water, pump it to the Mohave plant by way of a 275-mile coal pipeline (the longest of its kind in the world...
Some 15 customers didn't budge until a squad car pulled up at 4:15 and two policemen ordered them to leave. Another policemen stood outside the cafeteria until it re-opened at about 4:55. Then, grumbling under his breath about the policy, he marched down to the Waldorf for breakfast...
There are some sense-flogging sequences in which a camera attached to a racing car is lowered to within an inch of the track, so that when the car skims along at 150 m.p.h. and the track comes rushing at the spectator's face, he may suffer the illusion that he is right there in the car, and that if he doesn't find that brake pedal pretty damn quick he's never going to make the next corner. And there is one phony but heart-stopping crash in which a racing car leaps off the road...
...story about a moral crisis in the life of a college professor. That the military is an insensitive institution is made plain by William Styron's story of a long march ordered by a Marine martinet, and it is unconsciously funny when measured by the standards of less car-oriented societies in which marching is not considered an ordeal...