Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain's Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...
Then why is everyone thinking only about getting his car started? Carmen is short, rumpled, well seasoned. And direct. "Look," he says, "this is a very sophisticated state. Everyone has seen a President. Nearly everyone has seen several Presidents...
...small so that it cannot handle direct flights from the mainland; jet passengers must disembark at Honolulu and transfer by cab ($3) or WikiWiki bus to the Aloha or Hawaiian Airlines terminal for the 20-min. onward flight to the Valley Isle, and may then have to rent a car to reach their destinations. Explains Elmer F. Cravalho, 53, the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.), tough-minded descendant of Portuguese immigrants who has been Maui's mayor for the past eleven years: "We want the people who come to Maui to make a conscious choice that this is where...
...answers: 1) Either 1960s or 1960's is correct; 2) "a U.S. Representative"; 3) "Smiths' car...
Should you write "in the 1960s" or "in the 1960's"? Is it "a U.S. Representative" or "an U.S. Representative"? Where does the apostrophe go in "the Smiths' (or Smith's) car"?*Fifteen times a day, on the average, telephone callers put these questions to an Emporia State University English instructor with the appropriate name of Faye Vowell...