Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs "to repel an invasion." Led by Contractor Anthony Imperiale, who deeply fears new and worse conflagrations in Newark, the vigilantes now prowl the city in "Jungle Cruisers," and are said to possess an arsenal of 1,000 rifles, an armored car and five helicopters...
...butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart operation in 1893, while Dr. Charles Drew pioneered in new techniques to store blood plasma. Drew, ironically, bled to death after he was injured in a car crash-and was turned away by an all-white hospital...
...first light of dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead...
...failed to stir the mass of Italians-and so have the elections. Reason: the average Italian has never had it so good, Italy last year boasted a growth rate of 6%, sec ond only to Japan among industrialized countries. One Italian family in two now has its own car; virtually all have a television set, and often a refrigerator and washing machine to boot. The nationwide impact of television is relentlessly nibbling away at Italian regionalism, making Italians in the south more like Italians in the north, and making both of them hunger for the good things of the consumer...
...glance at the two girls with their dribbly double butterscotch icecream cones, and the San Francisco cable-car conductor decided that such delights were not for him. "Ladies," said he sternly, "you've got to get off if you don't throw away your ice-cream cones." Since Frisco's conductors are nothing if not captains of their cars, a chastened Lynda Bird Robb, Husband Chuck and their official San Francisco hostess meekly stepped off the Russian Hill clang-along to hoof it a while on their sightseeing trip...