Word: fender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half an hour." But he did not wait. He was off to other forward units, riding with one long leg astride a fender of his jeep...
Safe in London after flights to Italy, to North Africa, to Britain, New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman (see p. 41) left Paddington Station in a limousine which promptly struck a parked car, crumpled a fender, smashed a wheel, blew a tire. The Archbishop was shaken but uninjured, planned to fly back to Africa next week...
When the Axis entered Athens some U.S. officials stayed behind. One day Nick's car brushed the fender of another carrying an Italian lieutenant and two privates. The lieutenant leaped from his car, slapped Craw. Again Nick did not wait for a declaration of war; the beautiful Italian uniform flopped in the dusty street. A German officer pulled Nick off the two privates...
...manufacturing brains are concentrated in Detroit; so is much of the world's smartest machinery. Many a machine is no good for making anything but autos; that was why conversion was not the simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride has been ripped out, carted to parking lots...
...youth. And shocked parents and school officials learned that New Rochelle bars were an after-school hangout; that a survey showed 94% of high-school youngsters questioned drove or expected soon to drive cars; 28% of those who drove had no licenses; 57% had been in automobile accidents; "wrinkle fender" (i.e., automobile tag) was a popular game...