Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lookouts were posted along both sides of the straightaway, flashlights ready to blink at the first sign of police. The first few cars took off with a roar, sped down the highway at 60, 70, 100 miles an hour. They ripped along two abreast, made oncoming motorists scurry to the side of the road. The boulevard's residents took one resigned look and telephoned the police...
...squad cars sirened into the boulevard. The speedsters roared away in all directions, careering through side streets and bumping across empty fields with gnashing gears and wide-open throttles. As usual, police caught only a handful...
...Over the Side. Sleeping off the effects of shipboard merrymaking, many of the 512 passengers-more than 80% of them Americans-never heard the cries of alarm. Some who did groggily dismissed them as the noise from another of the Noronic's boisterous parties. Overwhelmed by the flash fire's speed, the skeleton crew aboard the ship (30 out of 173) fought the fire for 13 minutes before sending an alarm to the Toronto Fire Department. Said one passenger later: "They might have been trying to put out hell with their fountain pens...
Enough passengers heard the cries of fire to choke the Noronic's three passen ger decks as frantic men & women fought to get to ropes and ladders dangling from the ship's sides. Bashing through doors and portholes of the tiny staterooms, others got out-some naked or in flaming night clothes-to plunge headlong over the side and into the water or try a jump to the pier. There was time to lower only one lifeboat...
Plaster walls have been painted with a view to the light-reflecting and eye-resting qualities of the color's used. North-side rooms have yellow walls to maximize sunlight, while in the other living quarters the conventional plain ivory has been supplanted by pastel grey, green, and blue...