Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white gown and bedecked herself with flowers on her toes, and they exchanged vows. At the guru's $80,000 Denver home, guests eyed a mountain of wedding gifts, including a cabin cruiser parked on the lawn and a silver Masarati with JUST MARRIED neatly whitewashed on its rear window...
...paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco's Princess Grace (Rear Window, Dial M for Murder). Grace, whose career was made in Hitchcock movies, quoted one of Hitch's quips. After being stuffed into a tightfitting gold lamé ballgown for To Catch a Thief, she was greeted by him with "There's hills in them thar gold." As for Hitchcock...
...freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs through the living room, across the sun deck, through the sauna, a bathroom and a bedroom, and then out onto a trestle high above the rear patio...
...single product could take credit for West Germany's "economic miracle," it would be the Volkswagen Beetle. Since the start of production 36 years ago, 18 million copies of the inelegant rear-engine car designed by Ferdinand Porsche have been sold round the world; yet now the world's joyride with the Beetle appears to have stalled, so thoroughly that production has ground to a temporary halt...
...r.p.m., the driver would break contact with the overhead wires. At this point, the motor would become a generator powered by the heavy flywheel, which would be kept spinning by its own inertia. Electricity from the generator would then turn a conventional drive motor attached to the rear wheels. Electrogyros could not travel more than three-quarters of a mile before the flywheel had to be spun up again, and eventually they were abandoned as impractical...