Word: low-slung
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...doesn't give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often." But in the view of Judge Albert Van Court, Jock's massive shoulders, his wrinkled face with its powerful undershot jaw, and the low-slung carriage seemed little short of perfection. Not since 1913 had a bulldog won that final award...
...flashy sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta, a four-passenger hardtop. Flashiest of the fleet was the LaSalle II sports roadster, a low-slung (42.8-in.-high) model with a reinforced glass-fiber body and an experimental 150-h.p., V-6 engine that G.M. engineers hope will enable them to cut down on engine space in the future...
...low-slung, lightweight passenger train will be ordered soon, if the committee of Eastern railroad presidents formed to investigate its possibilities (TIME, July 12) does not come up with a mass order for such a train. Young added that General Motors will have a new train "on the rails by July, Pullman shortly thereafter, and A.C.F. soon after that...
...wants to pay off the remaining $4 a share of back dividends on preferred stock, then start paying dividends on the New Haven's 525,789 shares of common stock. He hopes to boost long-haul passenger traffic by faster trains, is toying with the idea of a low-slung aluminum train something like Spain's 120-m.p.h. Talgo express that could zip from New York to Boston in fewer than three hours. He plans faster, better service for commuters, thinks he can do it without boosting fares. But he is not going to take over Dumaine...
...boudoir looks something like Louis XIV converted into a floor lamp. It turns out to be Bob Hope, cast as a sort of tailor's dummy who wishes he were man enough to fill Casanova's britches. And to the lady Hope replies (in a long, low-slung, sports-model voice that slides up to the listener's mental curb and honks suggestively): "I don't need any help...