Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia, they wallowed in talcum-fine sand or crunched across sharp shale that ripped tires to ribbons. Rocks tore into gas tanks and crumpled fenders. Two cars turned over. A Ford Zephyr plowed into a cow, tossed the animal into the air and caught it on the motor hood. Zephyr and cow were flattened beyond repair...
...zanne or Modigliani he has just bought. Right away you know you're involved in this purchase somehow. Before the conversation is finished you find you've just donated the painting. I've always thought of Chato as a kind of Brazilian Robin Hood. He robs the rich and gives it to the people...
...there have been at least two new designs since that model. Ford executives were frankly surprised at the sketch of the front end of the Ford: it looked like a Studebaker, bore little resemblance to their 1955 model. The most accurate sketch was of the Dodge, with a flat hood and rear deck, high fender lines, and a wrap-around windshield with the window post slanting back, instead of being perpendicular as in G.M. cars. But there was no doubt that next year will bring the greatest spate of major restyling in postwar auto history: a total of nine completely...
...Green Feather movement started at the University of Indiana early this spring when a textbook commissioner tried to ban "Robin Hood" as subversive. A group of people adopted the green feather of Robin Hood as their symbol and soon attempted to bust McCarthy...
...been involved in several heated discussions with other racing enthusiasts over the cylindrical-shaped cover on the hood of the Cunningham Racer as depicted on the cover of the April 26 issue of TIME. Some of us think it's a sort of radarscope to be used in the fogs at Le Mans; others believe it's an air velocity generator - while some say it's a centrifugal stabilizer. Which guess is correct - and if none are, just what...