Word: goriest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's hell-for-rubber Piero Taruffi, 50, the "Old Fox" and winner of the goriest Mille Miglia road race, which brought death to Spain's Marquis de Portage, two other drivers and nine spectators (TIME, May 20), decided to leave his profession alive. "I have sworn to my wife Isabella that I will never race again," said he solemnly. "Roads have become insufficient in the face of mechanical progress. It is impossible to guarantee the safety of spectators...
...them, recently excavated by Dr. William H. Sears of the University of Georgia, is called "Mound D" by archeologists. What the Indians called it may never be known, but the tale of its building must have scared many generations of prehistoric children. Mound D was the scene of the goriest funeral ever held in the state of Georgia...