Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, where there was no lack of war awareness, motor dealers advertised : "Rationing is not necessary . . . California must fight for its right...
...whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing 20,000 of the choicest, most tenderhearted names in England, found he could have his own motor, furnish the vicarage like a house in London's swank West End, spend more than 20 times his Vicar's miserable stipend of ?400 yearly...
...Habit to Break. U.S. citizens annually travel one and a half billion air miles, 15 billion intercity-bus miles, 25 billion rail miles, 240 billion motor miles -and the habit is hard to break, war or no war. With more money in pocket than ever before, people were crowding the public carriers, had increased traffic 50% in the first six months...
...races, where he brought crowds up on their hind legs with the formation acrobatics of his Men on the Flying Trapeze, at fields where he was stationed as a flying officer, Claire Chennault never left anything to chance-beyond the possibility of a failing motor when his pursuit ship was on its back. As studious on the ground as he was daredevil in the air, he spent hours planning his acrobatic shows. He taught his youngsters precision flying, discipline, teamwork...
...greasy dungarees of the Royal Navy to go fishing for mine and submarine, Writer A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The captain was dead: he had "copped it in a fight with some motor torpedo boats. A one-pound shell took half of his head off." But he had left his immortally mortal diary behind...