Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visibility; the station wagon even has wrap-around rear windows. Tubeless tires are standard equipment. Optional: power brakes that keep their power even when the engine is stalled, power steering, pushbutton windows, a two-way power seat, and an air-conditioning unit (about $150 extra) that fits under the hood, thus takes up no baggage space...
...flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...
Later on, he ad-libbed another story about the operator of a chain of filling stations who tried to check up on his employees by driving up in his car incognito. He was astonished at the super service he always got until one day, lifting his car's hood, he saw a note attached to the motor: "Be careful what you do or say. This s.o.b. is president of the company...
...Shield of Falworth as distinctly "the lesser of medievals." Actually, The Black Shield is better than that. In sheer athletic thwack-in the vim with which buffets are fetched and weasands slit-it is one of the jaw-jarringest things of its kind since Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood...
...with your dear Lord." But the priest liked the little ruffian,the only other educated man on the poverty-stricken island. It was hard not to like a man who not only treated the poor for nothing but gave them food, money and fuel as well. In Robin Hood fashion, De Geus clipped his few rich patients unmercifully, but no one could accuse him of greed. Before long he and the priest were pals, sat long over the wine after dinner, carried on endless conversations. The peasants were almost as shocked by their priest's choice of company...