Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge and stately house rears its white bulk among acres of hydrangeas. The house is Groote Schuur (Great Barn); once it belonged to famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes; Rudyard Kipling used to winter there. Past its well-stocked deer park one morning last week sped a shiny. Packard sedan, followed by a Ford. Shortly after 11 a.m., the Packard drew up outside South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles away. The Ford parked behind, and its driver, a burly, red-faced cop, ran to the Packard. He leaned inside and slowly, very slowly, helped...
...sunny street outside, Policeman Edmund Noonan was directing traffic, half a block from the bank truck. He noticed a black Buick sedan beside it and strolled down the street to call a warning against double parking. As he approached, the car started up, ripped past him, screeched around the corner and was gone. The cop took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since...
Ellis struck first at midnight. He drove his sedan to the George Mensinger ranch near Merriman on the Niobrara River, got out, walked to the house and hammered on the door. When Mensinger opened it, Ellis killed him with a shotgun blast, pumped out three more shots and then circled around to a kitchen window. Mensinger's 24-year-old wife was at the telephone, baby cradled in one arm, sending an alarm over the party line. Ellis fired again, killed her and wounded the baby...
Weathered In. In Reno, when his sedan stalled in a snowdrift, Robert Gibbs hopped out, trampled the hood down to the engine, ripped off the ventilator flaps, pulled off the door handles, smashed all the windows, walked away...
...last week Remedies stopped his shiny sedan at a busy downtown Havana intersection and told his chauffeur to wait. Traffic Policeman Carlos Gutierrez presently walked over and handed the chauffeur a parking ticket. Returning, Remedies leaped at the cop, grabbed him by the shirt and shook him. "You can't do that to me," he snarled. "I am Representative Benito Remedies and I am going to kill...