Word: carte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointed" was too weak a description for his feelings, jeered, "Peanuts!" Recalls Union Leader Robert McHugh: "Instead of a Christmas celebration, it was more like a wake." Not so 150 miles north, in Stratford. Sikorsky President Gerald Tobias raced out of his office and hopped on an electric golf cart to tour the plant, shouting the news to machinists, assemblers and engineers. Says Riveter Maria Ferreira, 54: "It was like the war ended. Everyone went crazy, clapping, screaming, yelling...
...Kennedy as Representative from Massachusetts' Eighth District in 1953, he lived half the week in bachelor style in Washington. Weekends he commuted to Cambridge, where his wife Mildred had chosen to stay to mother their five children. Saturday mornings he was likely to be seen pushing a shopping cart through the Star Market on Porter Square, where constituents buttonholed him. He patiently jotted down their complaints-and later acted on them...
This summer Lawrence White is extending his business experience and hiking his savings as manager of a go-cart track near his family's home in Moorestown, New Jersey...
...support of its plea for reunification pledged "our Lives, what is left of our Fortunes and what is left of our sacred Honour." The Economist's Declaration was a new wrinkle on an old theme: in George Bernard Shaw's 1929 political comedy, The Apple Cart, a British monarch rejects a U.S. plea for reunification out of fear that England would become, in effect, just another American state...
Discouraged by these events, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered up such belongings as were easily carried and left the city by cart and foot, creaking their way northward through the green fields that border Bowery Lane. One American officer recalls his wife's fear of being caught in battle: "You can scarcely conceive the distress and anxiety that she then had. The city is in an uproar and everything in the height of bustle. I scolded like a fury at her for not having gone before." The destination of the fleeing New Yorkers: the King's Bridge...