Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 7,000,000 now. Driving schools are crowded with middle-aged learners. The tests are usually elaborate, but they tend to be more intellectual than practical. The standard French examination, for instance, does not necessarily ensure that a candidate knows how to make a turn from the proper lane, but it sternly requires theoretical answers to such questions as: "What actions does one take when approaching a funeral cortege or a column of soldiers...
...such a bella figura or prove himself such a furbo (big shot) behind the wheel as the Italian. He passes on the right, double passes on the left, triple parks, turns left from the right-hand lane, lunges at pedestrians, ogles the girls, looks at his handsome self in the mirror, waves his arms wildly and shrieks "criminali" and "bastardi" at other drivers. He plays Roman roulette, which means hurtling into an intersection without looking to left or right. The one thing he likes better than passing a whole row of cars is passing the car that is passing them...
...Station WXYZ whenever Silver galloped off in a cloud of dust. For radio listeners surfeited with news and music and music and news, Shadow, Ranger and Hornet are a welcome relief from the prevailing tedium of the medium. Nor does one need a 21-in. screen to visualize Margo Lane as she weathers perils that make Pauline's seem like playschool...
Prepare yourself, Miss Lane. I have the branding iron ready...
...Lamont Cranston; he is "a man of wealth, a student of science and a master of other people's minds, who devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty." Back in the dark ages before television, his weekly right-wronging rescue of Margo Lane held families in quivering suspense before the midget Gothic table...