Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although there was no Sloan car [Feb. 25], at least one of G.M.'s vehicles was named after its inventor: the Oldsmobile, named after Ransom Eli Olds, and first produced in 1887 as a three-wheeled, steam-powered horseless carriage. In 1900, the "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile was developed at the Olds Motor Works. It was some time later that the Oldsmobile became associated with...
...Itch. Many of his car-crazed coterie may have shrugged off Smitty's repeated threats to kill his best girl, Gretchen Fritz, 17. Some, after Gretchen and her sister Wendy, 13, disappeared, seriously suspected that he had carried out his threat. Several of his intimates thought they knew that a year earlier he had dispatched another girl, Alleen Rowe, 15, as wantonly as he had once smashed a pet cat against a wall. Even so, if one of Smitty's pals, fearing that his own girl friend was next in line for liquidation, had not finally told...
...screen flung itself repeatedly last week against populated areas of Mississippi. On Jackson's southwest fringe, sounding "like a thousand jets," the tornado struck at 4:31 p.m., demolishing a crowded shopping center and killing a dozen people. A man and his collie were picked up in their car, turned around, and set down 60 ft. away. A mother and son were decapitated side by side. A Negro girl died under a collapsing hot-dog stand...
...northeast, the twister spun down on the industrial suburb of Flowood, overturning six railroad boxcars, smashing factories and claiming ten lives; one dead worker was left hanging on a fence. At Forkville, Joe Bullock, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Mississippi's Fourth District, was killed when his car was blown off the road. Finally, after a parting punch at Pea Ridge, the twister petered out under the sullen, sultry cumulonimbus that had spawned it. At week's end, with the aroma of pine tar from uprooted trees still heavy in the air, and rescuers still digging through...
...fireworks were impressive, the crowd was immense, and the Charles, while not sweet-smelling, was at least inoffensive. But only a few weeks later, it was difficult even to drive near the Charles without closing the car windows...