Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orlando Letelier, 44, passed by the stately stone mansion that had been his official residence for nearly two years. A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down as far as 250 feet away...
...locks the exhaust and intake valves shut and cuts off fuel to the affected cylinders. The pistons in these cylinders continue to move up and down, and the spark plugs fire, but no fuel is burned. The cylinders are not supplied with the fuel mixture as long as the driver maintains cruising speed or until the vehicle's speed drops below 25 m.p.h...
...House, but he did receive a phone call. Bolles told the caller to go to the state capitol and went back to get in his car. He backed up a few feet, then turned his wheels. An explosion blew out the windshield, blew a two-foot hole under the driver's seat. Doctors amputated one leg, an arm, another leg, to save his life. He developed pneumonia. Finally, on June 13, he died. Curiosity killed Don Bolles...
...found in 1929 in a friend's New York apartment clasping his lover, Josephine Rotch, in his arms and a pistol in his right hand. Each had a bullet hole in the temple. Plans for a spectacular death had occupied Harry's mind since his days as an ambulance driver in the First World War. He pursued death as eagerly and as singlemindedly as he had pursued his other passions: alcohol, gambling, opium, women, and literature. Actually, Crosby's death displayed as little taste or originality as his poetry. He certainly succeeded in shocking and enraging Boston, but his other...
...They are fast rollers in the grand Southern tradition of dirt track racing: small-town versions of Rapid Roy. Up to 3,500 fans will converge on the Concord Speedway 15 miles northeast of Charlotte, N.C., on a balmy Saturday evening to watch these two "pedal-to-the-metal" drivers bump fenders as they scream around the track in their blazing fast, gloriously battered stock cars. Stick and Carl are masters of the "power slide," a dirt racing technique that requires each driver to gauge the velocity of his car against its distance from other vehicles while skidding laterally around...