Word: cart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happier mission, Eisenhower and Churchill whirred off by helicopter to the farm at Gettysburg next afternoon, rode around in Eisenhower's electric golf cart, Churchill wearing a ten-gallon hat, inspecting Eisenhower's butterfat Black Angus cattle. They sat on the glassed-in sun porch discussing the famous battle. Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. Churchill, old Civil War buff, discussed divisions and division commanders with...
Tillich may be a great thinker, but human thought does not manufacture God. God is! Theology-totin' Tillich has got the cart before the horse. Prodigal man does not find God by high-flown speculations; God has to grab hold of his straying child. That's why his son came out of heaven, chasing after...
...what officials euphemistically called a "goodwill mission," troops began moving northward in a nine-day mopping-up operation. At night, soldiers and police swooped down upon scattered villages of mud-walled huts to cart off every male adult for questioning. The "screening process" was admittedly a bit clumsy-"not nearly so well defined," one police officer said, "as in Cyprus or Kenya." But the fact that those two fateful names came up at all was symptomatic of the uneasy mood...
Mile-Long Queues. In 1927 Joseph Joanovici emerged from the obscurity of the Balkans to settle down in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. In twelve years he progressed from a ragpicker's cart to become a millionaire and one of France's top scrap metal dealers. At the outbreak of World War II, 34-year-old Joanovici tried to enlist in the French army. Turned down because he was still a Rumanian national, he sent his personal check for $3,000 to War Minister Edouard Daladier to help the war effort...
...fact that 15,121 trademarks were registered in 1958 was one measure of industry's drive to innovate. Westinghouse is testing an ultrasonic dishwasher that knocks off dirt with sound waves, an electronic hostess cart that can be wheeled to any part of the house, a refrigerating system to make the old box obsolete by providing separate drawers for meat, dairy products, vegetables, each with its own temperature adjustment...