Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit is also gingerly moving toward what many regard as the autos of a future in which it must make cars smaller to comply with federal gas-mileage requirements: front-wheel-drive cars. Front-wheel drive, an idea from Europe, makes possible a transverse engine-one that is fitted sideways under the hood. That saves enough space to permit a surprisingly roomy interior in a relatively small car. Moreover, there is no transmission tunnel running back through the passenger cabin to cramp leg room. GM offers front-wheel drive on some Cadillac and large Oldsmobile Toronado models and is preparing...
...doctor thought of the English language as something celestial - swirling, nebulous, with a bright density of words at the center and others flying off toward the margins of space and time. He came at last to regard the Dictionary as "a great abyss that will never cry 'Enough!' " Out of that chaos he fashioned one of the monuments of English-speaking civilization...
...many requests made by the commission were foolish (one he labeled "poppycock"). But he dispatched agents to fulfill them. Hoover's personality, including his most odious and eccentric characteristics, comes through vividly in the files. He told aides that President Johnson wanted all leads pursued vigorously "without complete regard for technicalities." and he had a fetish about not letting any bureau reports go to the commission marred by spelling or grammatical errors...
...family of the first victim, Yolanda Washington, 20, called her high-living boyfriend a "bad dude" before her body was discovered near Forest Lawn cemetery in suburban Glendale, but police do not regard him as a suspect. Victim No. 5, Kathleen Robinson, 17, a frequent hitchhiker, was found beside a parkway in Los Angeles. The two youngest, Dollie Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, vanished a week before their bodies were found on a trash heap in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium. Neighbors of the latest victim, Lauren Rae Wagner, 18, a student at a local business college...
...Plimpton persuaded Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion, to box with him, the results to be set down in a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article. Plimpton found a trainer named George Brown. "I had been introduced to him by Ernest Hemingway, who always spoke of him with highest regard-as a boxer who could have been a champion if he had been able to accept the idea that he was going to be hit once in a while...