Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four cars in four years have smashed into Bridge 238 on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka. In each case, the driver was the lone occupant, and he was killed. In each case, turnpike police made the same notation on their report: daylight, clear, road dry, level and straight, no skid marks. "Cause: improper driving." Or was it suicide? No one can know for sure, but more and more police and traffic experts suspect that "autocide," as one expert calls it, is an important cause of traffic deaths...
...Harvard the next item on the agenda is the Beanpot consolation against B.C. at 7 p.m. Monday at Boston Garden. The Crimson skaters are down from two defeats in three days but will have the 4-3 overtime loss in January that started the present skid on their minds when they face the Eagles again...
...sociological shocker that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...
...Done Something Bad." The next night, after making the rounds of Skid Row bars, Speck holed up in a 90?-a-night flophouse on the West Side's Madison Street under the name of B. Brian. Around 11 o'clock, he shouted to his next-door neighbor: "You got to come and see me. I done something bad." The neighbor replied: "You go to hell." Fellow occupants heard Speck stumbling about and peered at him. Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck...
...time being, says the President, "I'm going to sit steady. We don't want to put both feet on the brakes and turn us into a skid that is a recession or depression." For that reason, the President's voice is likely to be heard often over the land in the coming weeks of spring, earnestly preaching the virtues of penny pinching...