Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind this comic madness is the product of a comfortable but solitary upbringing. The last child of a Ford Motor Co. vice president, Williams grew up in Chicago, the Detroit suburbs and Tiburon, near San Francisco. When left alone, he summoned up his own world, maneuvering his toy soldiers and cloning his own versions of wacky Jonathan Winters characterizations like Maude Frickert. After two stabs at college in California, he moved to New York City to study acting. For spending money, he and a partner did white-faced comedy mime in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, occasionally matching...
...bill would not affect present laws permitting 18-year-olds to work in establishments that sell alcohol. It also provides that 20-year-olds who do not have a driver's license may get a special picture identification for $5 from the Registry of Motor Vehicles...
Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...psyched to hit Motor City and see what we can do," Thad McNulty said yesterday...
...cars have ideas? The motor designers say no. But they mean under ordinary conditions. Have they foreseen everything...