Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Samuel A. Mudd. Booth needed treatment for the broken leg he had sustained in his leap from Lincoln's box to the stage of Ford's Theater, and, as the familiar story goes, he gave Mudd a fictitious name and kept his face hidden behind a muffler and false beard. Still, Mudd was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination plot and sentenced to life imprisonment. Though he was pardoned in 1869 by President Andrew Johnson, the record of his conviction remained on the books at the time of his death in 1883. It still does...
Only an aquiline nose and a pair of scuffy cheeks peeked out from behind the purdah of colored glasses, gray muffler, and hotel towel anchored Arab-style by a pillbox chapeau. But the imperious stare, the twitching extremities and the spindly silhouette of Bob Dylan, 32, belied the Bedouin disguise. The erstwhile revolutionary folkie, rock-'n 'roll innovator and countrified cop-out was back after an eight-year absence from concert touring. Perched atop a hotel couch in Philadelphia (the second of 21 cities in his current six-week tour), Dylan was solidly re-ensconced as the reigning...
...device to 1975-model cars that will be sold in California and wherever else the automakers wish. According to GM, this "catalytic converter" will improve gas mileage by up to 13% and make cars perform as well as in the good old days. Shaped like a muffler and attached to the exhaust system, it will also convert hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into water vapor and other harmless compounds...
Stewart, the rooster of vaudeville rock, prances about the stage in pomp and plumage. His costume includes a baby blue pantsuit with flowered muffler, a yellow negligee and gold toreador pants with a white sleeveless top. In order to maintain his concert pace, Stewart has to keep himself in top physical trim; he follows a preperformance regimen of steam bath, black coffee and port-and-brandy. At a recent show in Anaheim, Calif., he wiggled his way through Maggie May and Every Picture Tells a Story, and later, during an instrumental break, backstagers could see him gasping and wheezing behind...
...style vision of pre-clinic (and pre-answering service) medicine features a graying, slightly stooped general practitioner shrugging on a topcoat and muffler in the dim morning light. His patient needs him and he is ready to help...