Word: dashboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without a moment's hesitation. Philippine water-buffalo horns, 30 inches wide, arced away from the radiator; door handles, gearshift and fender ornaments were all pearl-handled Colt six-shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop, grabbed an armful of fancy jeans, vests and jackets from the back seat, and bustled busily into the dressing room...
...keeps the motorist cool by forcing a draft of air under and behind him will be put on sale by Comfort Conditioning, Inc. of Norfolk. Built like a conventional summer car-seat pad, the cooler has a four-blade fan in a steel housing, draws its power from the dashboard cigarette-lighter outlet. Price...
Just then, another car, headed in the opposite direction, came over a rise in the highway. The cars crashed headon. Seven people were injured in the wreck. Caught between dashboard and front seat and instantly killed was little Philip Roberts, still on his knees...
Tail over dashboard, wild as a herd with heel flies, the U.S. television audience is in the midst of the biggest stampede for the wide open spaces since the California gold rush. TV's western boom began four years ago, and every season since then, the hay haters have hopefully predicted that the boom would soon bust. Yet every season it has been bigger than the last. Last week eight of the top ten shows on TV * were horse operas. The networks have saddled up no fewer than 35 of the bangtail brigade, and 30 of them are riding...
...almost every material blessing, Levine finds the U.S.S.R. far behind the U.S. But where Russia is ahead, he does not hesitate to say so, e.g., Russian autos have a "clock on the dashboard that almost invariably tells the correct time...