Word: tires
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when Sheriff McCall and his deputy, James Yates, left the prison with the boys handcuffed together in the front seat. They drove to Weirsdale, where Deputy Yates picked up his own car and went on ahead-to look for lynchers' roadblocks, McCall explained later. Then, said McCall, a tire went flat. He got out to fix it. When McCall opened the car door to let Shepherd out, said McCall, the prisoner suddenly smashed at his head with the sheriff's flashlight and yelled to Irvin to get his gun. The sheriff pulled out his revolver, and shot each...
...radio a little bit. [The sheriff] told him to go ahead and check and so the deputy sheriff went on a short ways in front of us and says, 'O.K.' . . . The sheriff began to shimmy his wheel and said, 'Something is wrong with my left front tire...
Irvin said the sheriff reached under the seat for his flashlight, got out and kicked the front wheel. "Then he said, 'You sons of bitches get out and get this tire fixed' ... So Shepherd, he takes his foot and put it out of the car and was getting out, I can't say just how quick it was, but he shot him. It was quick enough, and he turned, the sheriff did, and he has a pistol and he shot him right quick . . . That left [Sammy] against the face of the car and then he shot...
...wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped up from 180 to 310; the car can do 150 m.p.h. Added feature: a spare tire that can be swung out easily from the trunk compartment on counterbalanced springs. Chrysler has not yet decided whether to market the K-310. Approximate price, if it does...
Most awesome of Hart's sporting accomplishments to many observers was his triumph last year in the Cambridge-to-Wellesley bike race, an event which he had also won the year before. Last spring, in the balloon tire class, he turned in a time which was only thirteen seconds slower than the racing-bike winner...