Word: exhausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe-bound traveler, however, the United States will look as luxurious as any ship in the world. Among her features: 2 2 public rooms, two theaters, and kitchens equipped with electronic radar stoves. Her two giant smokestacks, largest ever built, have fishtail fins to waft the ship's exhaust away from the sports and sun decks below...
...darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...
...flag drop, 33 low-hung, overpowered racing cars, almost blacked out by clouds of dust and exhaust smoke, roared down the brick and asphalt Indianapolis Speedway track last week in the first lap of the 500-mile Memorial Day grind. The Speedway rightfully prides itself on being the proving ground for most of the automotive advances in the past 40 years, and this year improved cars and equipment produced a whole roster of shiny new records. But speed outstripped design. Only six of the starting thoroughbreds managed to last the full distance...
...gamble on simplicity (about $30,000 to build and race his car) paid off. Getting better than six miles a gallon out of the special fuel (40% alcohol, 40% gasoline, 20% benzol), Belanger's racer had to make only one pit stop (for a cracked exhaust pipe, fuel and two tires). Oil-smeared Driver Lee Wallard, grinning happily from ear to ear, had a modest explanation for his part of the winning gamble: "I just tried to keep moving and stay out of trouble...
...very determined. I used to be agonized by my freckles. Now I just don't attempt to hide them. They're not madly ugly, are they? . . . Only the really plain people know about love. The very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression they soon exhaust their talents...