Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated in a Lincoln sedan flying the U.N. flag, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold drove through the battle wreckage of Bizerte. Along the way, Tunisian troops presented arms. When the car reached a French roadblock, a paratrooper flagged down the Lincoln. "Who is this personage?" he demanded. Unimpressed on learning Dag's identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While...
...Sullivan angrily snatched up the wallet and turned to walk away. The bandit fired, and Mrs. Sullivan fell with a bullet in her brain. Then the murderer shot Boothroyd twice in the face. In the Volkswagen, Denise Sullivan tried to drive off. But the bandit jumped into his dusty sedan, ran Denise off the road, and pulled her into his car. At week's end, FBI agents cornered a suspect who killed himself before he could be questioned. Said Moab Sheriff John Stocks: "It's one chance in 1,000 that we'll find the girl alive...
...house is cantilevered over a cliff, like a bird's nest on the muzzle of a memorial cannon. In the driveway is a Jaguar sedan named Black Widow. In the two-story living room is a red canvas swing hung from parachute cords. In the dressing-table mirror is the reason for the house, the car and the swing...
...entity as a polite truth or a romantic stage presence which melts in the wings into a conservative reality. If this is what the American people want there are American "folk singers" who chant Russian peasant songs to the accompaniment of periodic taps on the dashboard of a Mercedes sedan, or emit plantation work songs out over the violin section from the confines of tight black pants and silk shirts. These are the part-time romantics who make their deliveries without the "Alice-in-Wonderland logic" and with all the power and effectiveness of half the critical mass. The public...
...fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe sedan designed especially...