Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles youngster, "is that it's something with four wheels that's got something inside." The hot rod rolls out of a backyard garage a bumperless, fenderless, hoodless, roofless, uncomfortable concoction which runs so fast its driver must chug and jerk through town in low or second gear to stay under the speed limit...
...served cocktails and gazed anxiously northward. Far out over the North Sea her husband sat patiently on the edge of his basket, his feet dangling over the waves that lapped ten yards below, "so that if I should go into the water, I would not be entangled in the gear." The moon was full by then and "traveling swiftly on the very edge of the waves," Joseph recalled. "It was like a fairy tale." As the waves came even closer to his perch, Joseph dumped the last of his sand ballast and busied himself cutting up his trail rope...
Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...
...sure there are psychoanalyst's couches in the offices, and one room has a one-way observation screen built on the wall, but other psychological gear is conspicuously lacking. "Mein Kampf" and a life of Daunier flank the psychology texts in the bookcase; there are Japanese prints and Winslow Homer watercolors on the walls as well as pictures of Freud. The Clinic even has a kitchen, and serves its own 40-cent lunch for the staff...
...their failure to do anything about a prospective drop in Canada's foreign trade, and their haste in calling the election. There was a good chance that the country would also hear him repeat a charge that he made last week-that the Liberals were "socialists in low gear...