Word: sidecar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parade. Then the long trek began. The President's car moved at 25 m.p.h., with four Secret Service men on the running boards. The top was down, but the bulletproof glass sides up, beside the President. His car was flanked on each side by six sidecar motorcycles, and followed by three cars loaded with burly Secret Servicemen, eyes on the second-story windows, hands on guns. The cavalcade passed through Queens to The Bronx, from The Bronx to Harlem, from Harlem to the canyons of Manhattan, and down Broadway. All along the 51-mile route were crowds, heads covered...
Down a French road sped three German officers on a motorcycle and sidecar. A waiting U.S. soldier let drive at them with a rifle grenade. He had forgotten to pull the safety pin, arming the grenade for explosion...
...Russia the Germans are using a wheeled anti-tank torpedo, as big as a motorcycle sidecar, electrically guided and detonated by a cable trailing from the torpedo to the operator. The Russian defense: cutting the cable...
...Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar...
...Kendall, a refugee-wise consulting mining engineer from Pasadena, turned up in Chungking with a story of how Hong Kong's 1,500 American residents boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a motorcycle sidecar with guncotton, scooted off to the water front, there blew up two large ships to block Hong Kong harbor and scuttled 30 to 40 smaller craft...