Word: cruiser
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...They took him away to Shattuck, the prison hospital, the next day. But he kept his leg. We eventually learned the trouble started with an innocent accident: a third party had backed up into his Cadillac and a heated but non-violent argument ensued. When an unmarked police cruiser pulled up, Cadillac man jumped into his car and took off. Yes, the cops probably could have let this one go too, as the token sucker story reminded me. The feeling was now familiar...
...Even so, as former Confederate president Davis, now Union prisoner, recalled in his memoirs, one thought did bring him solace: "the Confederate flag no long floated on the land; but one gallant sailor still unfurled it on the Pacific"-"Captain [James I.] Waddell, commanding the Shenandoah cruiser...
When General Motors asked Bob Lutz to revive its product line in 2001, the thinking was that if anyone could do it, he was the man. The charismatic, brash ex-Marine fighter pilot had led the development at Chrysler of such hot cars as the Dodge Viper and PT Cruiser, and he wasn't shy about criticizing GM for cranking out the dullest metal in Detroit...
...Call quoted a letter from a Capitol Police union official who urged an investigation into whether Kennedy had received preferential treatment. According to the letter, officers approached Kennedy after the crash, in which he reportedly swerved into the wrong lane through a construction zone and nearly hit a police cruiser. After finally coming to a stop, Kennedy allegedly staggered as he got out of his car and appeared intoxicated. The letter charges that the officers were forbidden from performing a sobriety test on Kennedy under orders from their watch commander and were told to drive him home. In his first...
...that takes the wheel in the U.S. will probably be Chinese. In Detroit this week, a small company called Geely (pronounced Jee-lee) will be the first Chinese automaker to display a car at the North American International Auto Show. Unveiling the compact sedan, whose name translates as Free Cruiser, is a bit of a stunt since Geely may be a couple of years away from shipping products to the U.S. Yet the company has big plans, aiming to export 1.3 million vehicles worldwide, including small sedans for less than $10,000 and a sports car, the Beauty Leopard, which...