Word: corolla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hallucinations of breakbone fever, in a Malay medicine man who is accused of turning into a weretiger to commit murder, and in a chilling description of the noxious Midnight Horror tree: "The flowers are pollinated by bats which are attracted by the smell and, holding to the fleshy corolla with the claws on their wings, thrust their noses into its throat; scratches, as of bats, can be seen on the fallen leaves the next morning...
Tetirick gets into his orange Toyota Corolla sports car at about 3 p.m. each practice day, drives to Soldier's Field, parks behind Dillon and psyches himself for another day's supply of footballs...
...Toyota Corolla (97-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 20.8 m.p.g...
...with Power. In September, Toyota, the fastest-rising foreign automaker in the U.S., introduced a 1971 Corolla that is just about the same in size and price as the smallest Volkswagen. Listed at $1,798, not counting preparation costs, local taxes and transportation, the sporty '71 Corolla has white sidewalls and tinted glass as standard equipment. Its engine winds up to 73 h.p.-more than Volkswagen's, but less than the U.S. models...
Nakatani runs counter to tradition in a number of other ways. He occasionally considers quitting for a better post, though job-hopping is still largely unheard of in a land where people usually stay with the same firm for life. He drives home in his Toyota Corolla every day at 5 p.m., whether his boss has left the office or not. And he thought nothing of voting for the Communists in the last election, though he describes himself as "a conservative's conservative," because he was certain they were going to lose and he wanted to help keep the long...