Word: guardrails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control, hit the outer guardrail, killed Amick instantly...
...religious novels are dull or mawkish. The author's embarrassment shows up in the way he fidgets about in the shallow end of his narrative pool, or the wild high-dives he takes into the deep. Sometimes he tries to avoid these extremes by holding on to the guardrail and pulling himself around the edges, often out of his depth, but never going under...
...Believes It? In Heaven and Earth, Italian Novelist Carlo Coccioli uses his characters as a guardrail. He tells most of his story through their mouths, and thus remains at a safe distance himself. His priestly hero, Don Ardito, is one of those men who, like Tolstoy, struggle to tell the world that it has totally forgotten what Christianity is. "We say that the Father sent His Son to earth in the flesh and that the Son died ... in order to redeem us ... And we say further that every day we are allowed to repeat His sacrifice for our eternal salvation...