Word: carting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although I never doubted we would win, it was the complete isolation-apart from the occasional Red Cross messages and BBC broadcasts-that was so depressing." Her eldest son died in the war, and she survived two husbands. In recent years, the crippled old lady maneuvered her electric cart along Sark's unpaved roads, greeting every islander by name. "So long as my life may be extended," she said, "I shall strive to maintain this little feudal paradise, with all its traditions, laws and customs, as an oasis of quiet and rest...
...became the fifth survivor of inadvertent vice-presidential assault in recent years. Spiro Agnew beaned three spectators on the links and stunned Golf Pro Doug Sanders in a benefit tourney. Ford had another narrow escape after he had dealt with Tom. On the 16th tee he zapped the golf cart carrying two reserve police officers. Later, Ford, dressed in knickers and cap, took his wife Betty, in black satin and feather boa, to a Great Gatsby party in Washington. There they captured the prize for best costume. Jerry's award was almost too apt: a graphite club...
...passing by, you might also check out the Underdog cart in Forbes Plaza--regular hot dogs only, but the same high quality...
...looks like a cross between a golf cart and a moon buggy. It is popularly known as "the flying bathtub" and "the top hat on wheels." Its real name is Witkar-Dutch for white car-and it may just prove to be the biggest advance in inner-city transportation since trolleys took over from velocipedes...
Mere Mortals. Nixon's once much feared palace guard emerges as more petty than sinister. Magruder describes how Haldeman once gave his young aide Larry Higby a brutal dressing-down for failing to provide a golf cart to take him 200 yds. across the presidential compound at San Clemente. Haldeman loved to make his far-flung assistants jump by activating their Pageboy beepers, especially when traveling in Air Force One: "[Nixon] and Haldeman and Chapin and the others in the traveling entourage would get up there, 30,000 ft. above the earth, and something would happen to them...