Word: hairpin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently because she suffered a stroke, she lost control of her car on a hairpin turn in France above Monaco. The 1972 Rover fell 40 yds. down a steep hillside and caught fire. A resident extinguished the fire and pulled Princess Stéphanie, her 17-year-old youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed...
...chief spot in Paradise,Lemuel Sears, is a man technically old and clearly spry Primarily through his agency, the author takes his readers on a minor odyssey through the pattern, and this time we get to look closely at the marvelous decorations instead of just careening toward a hairpin turn...
...road winds slowly down the hillside, not lazily as winding roads are usually described, but with a vengeance, a tightly compressed series of hairpin turns descending to the river with an almost military efficiency. It crosses a narrow steel suspension bridge, wanders alongside the river, finally turning and cutting through the deep and wooded gorge, full of shadowy green and the sounds of rushing water, threaded by sunlight only during the early afternoons...