Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorcade, escorted by 100 Indonesian cops and guarded all along its route by scores of Tommy-gunners, swerved to a halt in the guerrilla-infested jungle of central Java when a sedan bearing Vice President Richard Nixon blew a tire. A trifle shaken, Nixon hurriedly joined his wife Patricia in another car, was soon on his way again...
...echoes of autobiography. Novelist Gordimer has not yet learned how to bring characters to life, but she has skill in fitting words together and in expressing nuances of emotion. What she has to say may not be new, but she says it well and men of good will never tire of hearing...
PREDICTED John T. Blake, a top rubber chemist: "With the new isocyanate rubbers [made from fatty acids and alcohol-type compounds] and with the new fabrics and reinforcement fibers . . . the lifetime tire is not far away . . . [with] colored rubbers that may be as tough as black compounds are today...
...never lost. With his plane grounded by storms on the Atlantic, doubts begin to dance across his mind. Can The Spirit of St. Louis carry the needed 450 gallons of gas weighing 2,700 Ibs.? He has never tested it with more than 300 gallons, for fear a tire would blow out on landing. Can he fly with the big gas tank in front of the cockpit, and no visibility ahead except for a makeshift periscope? Can he navigate a whole ocean with simple compasses? Even Nungesser and Coli have been lost over the Atlantic. Why should he succeed...
...speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing road. Then some irregularity-an electronic failure or a blown front tire-pokes a mischievous finger into the smooth system. The dreaming drivers awake only when their cars are already piling in great, mangled heaps...