Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both really shy in high school; we talked about all the guys we used to dream about and the clothes we used to wear. We both had a sense of familiarity with being at home in those dry, brown hills-stopping at fast-food places and getting in the car to drive and talk." The two women spent their first day together shopping and running errands: going to supermarkets, drugstores and health-food stores, where Keaton bought two bags of special caramel corn-the kind with extra nuts. Says Castro: "Diane doesn't want to be surrounded...
...your Essay on vanning [Sept. 5]: may I say that while shopping for my van, I passed by many $5,000 to $8,000 cars that I swore I couldn't afford, but the $12,000 I'm paying seems like nothing for what I've got. A car is transportation, but a van is an experience, even just sitting there. Also, after pushing an 18-wheeler around all day, it's a comfortable way to go home and still be above traffic. And watching the Caddy and Mercedes drivers eat their hearts out at times...
...Bennie Imperiale: "In all my born days, in all my experience on the job, I haven't seen anything like this." Hardest hit was the Country Club Plaza area, developed in 1922 as the nation's first planned shopping center. There the floodwaters smashed storefronts and swept cars along like toys. At the Plaza III, flooded with 5 ft. of water in 14 minutes, the bartender escaped the onrushing tide by ducking behind his bar. As he ran for the street, the glass wall behind the bar collapsed. By the time he found his wife at the nearby...
...Swope Parkway two women on the way to pick up their husbands at the Armco Steel plant took refuge on top of their car. But it overturned after being battered by abandoned floating cars and the torrents of water; one woman was rescued by six men who formed a human chain to pull her to safety, but her sister-in-law drowned. The 23 other dead were found, said one reporter, "all over the place...
...dispose of the pistols and instead stashed them in a safe. FBI agents found them there, along with seven other guns allegedly used by Ullo. The three witnesses told their stories last week at Ullo's bail hearing. Eugene Connor, 43, a man with an arrest record of car theft, said that he was Ullo's getaway driver on the night of the Molinas slaying. Reason for the hit, according to Connor: Molinas refused to pay a $50,000 debt to Ullo. Connor says he waited in the car while Ullo crouched behind a neighbor's backyard...