Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparation for an instructorship in survival for airmen, Steeves waved emptily at the brandnew grey Jaguar he bought shortly before his famed adventure. "Look. I've lost everything in the world-my wife. What have I got with all this publicity? I've got a nice car. I'm lonesome as hell...
Checks & Zippers. When Claude hesitated, Max Chester harassed him with threats, inquired pointedly about the health of Claude's children, reminded him that it was dangerous for children to play in the street. " 'They can get hit by a car.' It was always with the arm around my shoulder, and 'You have got to pay us off because you are mine and I own you. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine.' I was scared to death." In the end Claude paid Chester about $1,400 by cashing worthless checks...
Unphair to Protestants. One day last April, while Sean worked in his fields, Sheila bundled their two children into the car and drove off. Later, a Belfast barrister turned up at Dungulph Castle with Sheila's terms for coming back: Cloney must sell the farm, move to Canada or Australia, agree to let the children be raised as Protestants. Cloney got a conditional order for a writ of habeas corpus for his children's return, and waited...
...offbeat sound effects) and shriek "The Best Bread in Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit. "The mothers love me," says Soupy. He also gets the thanks of the fathers by offering such sound advice as: "When you are in the car with Daddy, don't shout or climb all over...
...Prospect. In Fuquay-Varina, N.C., E. T. Burchett, auto salesman, explained to police why he chased an armed bandit who had just robbed a bank of $12,000: "I wanted to sell him a car and I knew he had some money...