Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker was swinging pulled out of the ceiling and crashed to the floor. A battling horde of Romans and Persians, practicing in Spain's Guadarra-mas for Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire, parts momentarily as someone drives through the battle in his Fiat sedan. Bronston hops about, small and spiffy, like the little man who was once the mascot of Esquire magazine. His spectaculars turn out to be most spectacular of all when, in one panoramic shot, the viewer can see not only 1,000 charging horses and riders but also the armies...
...probably its price-less than $2,500. At any rate, Buhlie was not letting the matter disrupt his own plans. A few days after he unmasked the Mustang, he and Barbara Monroe Posselius, 18, were married in Grosse Pointe. The happy couple rode away in a 1964 Mercury sedan...
...Royal Academy of Arts, an 18th century addict who considered modern buildings "cellular facades cloaked with vitreous indifference," believed that "nothing should be streamlined except water closets," himself eschewed electricity and telephones, entertained in wig and knee breeches and paid calls on special occasions reclining regally in a sedan chair; of heart disease, in Ampthill, Bedfordshire...
...diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest cratering shots, Sedan (100 kilotons) and Danny Boy (400 kilotons), were fired in 1962 and proved that the Ploughshare rules for nuclear explosives work just as well in hard, heavy rock as in loose soil...
...Full Ashtray. Ferraris are too popular; a Jaguar sedan is still O.K., but avoid Lincoln Continentals-press-agents drive them. Get an Aston-Martin. Renting a car is acceptable. Warren Beatty gets a new one whenever the ashtrays are full...