Word: chauffeur
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...view of the Oppenheimer case: "This is not small peanuts. It is bigger than Dr. Oppenheimer, and it is bigger than the Eisenhower Administration . . . The question is whether you are going to have one security system for the scientist who built a bomb and another for the chauffeur who drives a Congressman around Washington...
...Netherlands' speed-loving Prince Bernhard hurtled along a Dutch road in his royal Lincoln. Bernhard's chauffeur sat at his side, idly watching the kilometers flit past. While trying to pass a road-hogging truck, the prince zigged when he should have zagged, wound up with the car doing a neat half rollover, followed by a ground-chewing landing on its side. The unperturbed chauffeur ceremoniously opened the door for unhurt Bernhard, who climbed out, hitchhiked to a gas station, phoned the royal garage for a fresh...
Overstaffed. In Chicago, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Marilyn Reilly testified that, after a 99-day honeymoon cruise, her husband Vincent informed her that since he already had a housekeeper, a chauffeur and a laundress, he did not need a wife...
...meat packing, the speedy shenanigans on Long Island were ignored. Father Cunningham was a lover of good horseflesh. It was not until he died in 1914 that Mrs. Cunningham bought the family's first car, a stately Pierce Arrow that Briggs, with the help of the family chauffeur, later learned to drive...
...seems to echo the horror-logged, death-haunted work of Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom's Slaughtered Animal (overleaf), part of a retrospective exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, led one dowager to complain that "When I want raw meat, I'll send my chauffeur to the butcher...