Word: legless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan would work as smoothly as a piston in a well-oiled cylinder. But M. Citroën had not counted upon native bullets or, if he had, he had counted upon the sky-blue soldiers of France to stop them. Turbulent Moors disliked the headless, legless camels that were to scoot across the desert at 45 miles an hour, declared an unholy war upon them. French officers warned M. Citroën that they could not guarantee security to tourists in the desert-finis. Sadly, painfully, reluctantly, M. Citroën announced the abandonment of his scheme and presumably...