Word: sidecar
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...Sidecar to Swallow. U.S. owners like the Jaguar for its power (160-h.p. engine) and speed, the way it hugs the road and the hand-tooled precision of its parts. They buy three times as many Jaguar sedans as sport models, dote on such things as a steering wheel that is adjustable to the height of the driver...
...Square, waistcoat by Hawes and Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren't you happy...
...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...