Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brethren. Every where Nasser went, crowds swarmed upon his car, struggled past policemen's clubs to embrace and kiss him; once he almost disappeared under clutching arms. Before a huge crowd in Cairo's Republic Square, Nasser stretched arms skyward in the glare of powerful spotlights as the cheers beat up at him from the throng, and declaimed: "Victory has come from God. Egypt today is no longer for the occupiers, the usurpers, or the oppressors. Today, oh brethren, Egypt exists for its children...
Memorizing the Bible was the key to conversion, as Trotman saw it, so he handed out scores of Scriptures to youth groups he organized. One day in 1934 a mother asked him to look up her son, a sailor on a ship off Long Beach. Sitting in his old car by the waterfront, Trotman quoted the Bible to the boy until a policeman grew suspicious. A few minutes later, Trotman had talked the cop into joining him and the sailor in a session of prayer. The sailor said: "I'd give my right arm if I could do what...
...killing of Chauffeur Setu, insisted Beldeanu, was an accident. Convinced that Setu was trying to get a gun out of the legation car, one of the younger members of the band aimed at Setu's feet only to have his Sten gun jump and riddle the chauffeur's body. Beldeanu admitted, however, that he had considered taking hostages and holding the legation until the Bucharest government liberated a number of prominent anti-Communists from Rumanian jails. "Don't you think this is a bit too fantastic?" asked Presiding Judge Paul Schwartz. "No," said Beldeanu firmly...
When he writes about The Man in the Dining Car, he writes of himself...
After Due Consideration. In Madison, Wis., after she deliberately backed into her husband's car, Mrs. Erwin Heldt told the cops: "I did it because he bumped into mine last week...