Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting in the Greyhound bus terminal, where they saw weary, worried mothers board buses with broods of children to start life somewhere else. Other poverty students vicariously shared the pain of knife, gun and mugging victims in the emergency room of the County Hospital...
...system includes a small computer installed behind the glove compartment and sensing devices mounted inside each rear wheel. When one or both wheels stop rolling while the car is in motion, indicating a skid, the sensor flashes an instant message to the computer. Many drivers end in catastrophe after a skid because they freeze on the brake pedal instead of pumping it rapidly and repeatedly while steering their way out of the spin. The computer will do the proper pumping for them in the auto-linear system. With one impulse it takes control of the brakes away from the brake...
DeFORD, by David Shetzline. A first novel with an unlikely hero-a proud and aging carpenter unluckily stuck on Skid Row-and an even unlikelier success in making real the old man's shining vision and integrity...
DeFORD, by David Shetzline. In this sensitive first novel, an aging carpenter hangs on to his dignity and memories amidst the defeat and depravity of Skid...
DeFORD, by David Shetzline. In this sensitive first novel, an aging carpenter hangs on to his dignity and memories amidst the defeat and depravity of Skid...