Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Shelton and Birger gangs, roaming through bloody Williamson County in armored cars, blazed away at each other on sight, killed mayors and cops with abandon. But they did not annihilate each other. Birger was convicted of murder and hanged.
¶New Yorkers watched their highways for four miracle Fords which, it was said, went 60 miles per gallon of gasoline, could also be run by atomic energy, and (as some heard it) sprouted wings at the touch of a button. The cars had escaped somehow from a secret research...
Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his...
The Reckoning. Within a couple of hours of the blast, hundreds of U.S. soldiers sped over the rickety Rhine bridge from Mannheim in the U.S. zone to bring help. They came with bulldozers to cut a path through the debris, with giant cranes to lift twisted girders off the dead...
The railroads, which usually talk to the public in conservative full-page ads and statistics, last week tried it with whoop-de-do and the can can. To mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million...