Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be Pontiac's four-cylinder compact, the Tempest. The first four-cylinder engine in a G.M. car in 30 years, the new water-cooled engine will generate 130 h.p. It will be mounted at a 45° angle to provide the Tempest with a low hood line. The Tempest will be similar to the Corvair in styling, but will be five to ten inches longer. The Tempest will also feature a trans-axle, a driveshaft system that has the engine up front but the transmission and differential in the rear...
...ends. Precious few '58s, '59s and '60s shine forth at the Automart. A 1925 T-model Ford is price-tagged at $500; beside it stands a 1930 Dodge at $875; next comes a 1936 British Lagonda for $2,000. If a prospect looks under an ancient hood, he may find a tin can packed with metal shavings in place of an air cleaner; salesmen rush up with warnings not to touch engines for fear of disturbing the precarious equilibrium developed over years of makeshift repairs...
...gypsy getup, with a fake topaz ring and a black velvet hood for her crystal ball, she looks the part, and a wily young Italian named Guido helps her play it. A kind of surrogate son, Guido cases clubs and fairs beforehand, and supplies her with the knowledgeable tidbits that later pass for revelations...
Omnibust. In Tokyo, when a bus brushed against his motor scooter and the bus driver failed to apologize, Electrician Hirona Fukui, 25, halted the bus by stopping the scooter in front of it, climbed onto the bus hood, walked up to the windshield, kicked...
...steaming out of the Kattegat into the North Sea, escorted by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Two days later, the pride of the Nazi navy was sighted speeding south toward the shipping lanes of the open Atlantic. Two British ships of the line engaged her. Bismarck quickly sank H.M.S. Hood, the biggest ship in the British battle fleet, and battered Prince of Wales so badly that she steamed off under a smoke screen...