Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watch a horror movie? You'd be sleeping, and then parts of that movie would come back and scare you? Well, this was the same way. I'd be trying to sleep, and I would see that face. I was always looking behind me, looking for a car to pull up alongside...
...said Almeida. "He was stepping off the curb when Harry hollered out, 'Hey, Billy, come here." " Almeida heard the shotgun blast and Logan cry out, "Oh, my God!"There was another shot, said Almeida, then Aleman got out and fired a third time. When Aleman got back into car, Almeida testified, he said, Drive slow. He's gone...
...name of socialism in Eastern Europe: the waiting time for purchasing a private automobile is frequently longer than a five-year plan and seldom shorter than the Berlin blockade. Only those with access to foreign currency seem to be able to drive away from a showroom with a new car minutes after walking in. For humbler folk who have the cash to spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels outstrips the supply. To beat...
Every Sunday beginning at 7 a.m., a procession of cars, ranging from almost brand-new models to well-traveled klunkers, wheels up to a parking lot in the Okecie district of Warsaw. Often the line outside the 150-car lot stretches for more than a mile. But it is worth waiting for a spot because, after paying a fee of $1.33, the drivers go into the used-car business. Most of the car owners are already government-sanctioned smalltime capitalists-garage proprietors, auto mechanics, private doctors-with a well-cultivated taste for profit...
...Car Mart. And profit they do. All the used cars fetch higher prices than the sticker cost of a new car. Buyers in tailored overcoats roam among the aging Fiats, Opels, Czech Skodas and Polish Warszawas, checking out the odometers and the prices, which are listed on hand-lettered signs stuck behind the windshield. On a recent Sunday, for example, one man was trying to sell his 1977 Lada (a Soviet-built Fiat), with 6,000 kilometers on the clock, for $11,000; new-when available-the car sells for $5,570. "It's crazy," said one visitor...