Word: charioteer
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...moneysaving (and -making) chariot is a Peugeot 504, powered by a diesel engine. At a list price of $8,260, the French-made Peugeot does not exactly qualify as low-priced. But the obvious economy of driving diesels is attracting more and more U.S. motorists: while diesel fuel costs about the same as gasoline, diesel engines get up to double the mileage. From 1974 to 1975, sales of diesel cars (mostly Peugeots and West German-made Mercedes) almost doubled in the U.S., rising to nearly 25,000 vehicles. Although sales this year are down, partly because of lower imports, Detroit...
...student porter is guilty of being ungrateful. He had hoped for the mail truck job, riding the range with Joe Perlatonda, leaping at high speed from a silver chariot with canvas bags slung over his shoulder, delivering mail all over campus. The romance of speed and the far-flung foreign niches of Harvard fades away and all he sees is a Hefty trash...
...back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and an a cappella "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" -- very competent, sort of boring. She also sang "Diamonds and Rust" from her new album which is explicitly about Dylan and pretty bitter: "If you're offering me diamonds and rust/ I've already paid...
This left wing has been giving Wilson more and more trouble lately. In his Godkin lectures, Crossman described the job of any Labour Prime Minister as "driving the two-horse chariot"--maintaining control over both the Parliamentary Labour Party, which tends to be middle-of-the-road, and the National Executive, which represents the party outside Parliament. In the complicated Labour Party Constitution, written in the early years of this century by Beatrice and Sidney Webb and Arthur Henderson, the big unions were supposed to supply the moderate ballast to keep the national party roughly in line with the P.L.P...
...good deal more excitement went, too, at the hands of the designers. These days no one really expects Fricka to ride on in a chariot drawn by rams, but why sacrifice the whole idea of the Valkyries as warriors? Shields and spears are banished from this Valhalla (directed by Wolfgang Weber and designed by Giinther Schneider-Siemssen). Maybe the old helmets were corny, but they were no worse than the dated bouffant coiffes the maidens now wear, not to speak of the evening gowns, complete with sequins and bugle beads. The nine mighty young immortals lack only evening purses...