Word: getaway
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...draw a curtain of rock music between himself and the terror-ridden streets, where glibly impassioned rhetoric is punctuated by the sound of explosions. Still, there is time on his hands and an emotional need to fill, so he drifts, convictionless, into the I.R.A.'s orbit, driving getaway cars for their "revolutionary" crimes. One of these forays results in the murder of a police constable named Morton (and the unintended maiming of his father) on the farm three generations of the family share. Why the man was marked for death was not explained to Cal, and political generalities after...
...looked for all the world last week like a gas station or a bank or a rent-a-car company trying to lure customers by offering discounts on television sets or getaway weekends. Instead, it was A T & T signaling that the once straightforward business of providing long-distance telephone service has drastically changed...
...social problems for a period of eight years"; and Reagan justifies high interest rates, explaining: "We just recently received word of a man who got a loan to buy a new automobile many years ago when interest rates were low. Well, that man used that automobile as a getaway car in several armed robberies. But I'm happy to say that our current high interest rates make automobiles unaffordable to a man in his income bracket...
Blythe does not deny that country living can brutalize, but he sees no alternative for those who suffer, as he does, from "the fatal involvement, the need to remain." Nor does he think that modern gadabouts are really making a getaway. For all his engines of mobility, a man remains buried in his body as irrevocably as a turnip in a garden. And so this home county of the flesh is where Blythe finally arrives in his search for the ultimate landscape...
...suddenly jumped on him and dragged him toward an orange Peugeot minivan. When Chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, leaped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to save his boss, he too was beaten and abducted. Coolly following a well-rehearsed plan, the criminals whizzed through downtown Amsterdam, switched to a Citroen getaway car and vanished into the night. Police later discovered bloodstains on the deserted van and two Uzi submachine guns near...