Word: sedans
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...began in Rome one day in June 1924, when an old woman sitting in a doorway and a little boy playing in the street saw a grey Fiat sedan pull up to a curb. Five men jumped out, grabbed Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the opposition to Benito Mussolini. They wrestled him into the car. It raced away. That was the last that was seen of Matteotti until his body, stabbed 36 times, beaten, partly burned, was found a few days later in a Roman ditch...
...rebel in his younger days, dismissed it all as "witticisms." De Gaulle got his colonelcy at a reasonably early age (47), but that was poor comfort. Just before the Germans fell upon France, he wrote one last memorandum, warning of the danger in trusting to the forests around Sedan in lieu of proper defenses. Nobody paid attention. Frustrated, agonizingly sure of what was to happen, equally sure that he might have saved France, Charles de Gaulle went into battle...
...rival, she took charge of his gang, whose activities included bank robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, extortion. Soon she muscled in on the Rosario race track, cleaned up by fixing the races. With her head triggerman, Arturo Placeres, Agata liked to speed through the streets of Rosario in a black Packard sedan with impressive (but faked) number plates...
...Risk. In Los Angeles, a 16-ton Army tank tangled with a civilian sedan...
...News space. They did. When a large drugstore stopped advertising, Jones bought a rival store a few doors away. He spends part of most days behind its counters, and there he frequently entertains soldiers at dinner with his third wife (whose Lincoln Zephyr is a pale blue sedan). Earl J. Jones has given the Litticks and Zanesville plenty to think about. Last week he was the subject of juicy comment in Massillon and by editors all over the State...