Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare knives and swords, which he denies using on the culprits) a wastebasket full of captured tools. This collection of implements taken by cops and proctors from unsuccessful freshman thieves includes one poker, two rusty hollow iron pipes, one hammer, one screwdriver, pliers, one stillson wrench, one car tire wrench, and one unidentifiable tool. He says that this basketful is only part of his original set of tools, many of which have been picked up later by their owners...
...into a fruit salad ... In the period when beer came in kegs, the man of the house hauled it himself. Now that it comes in handy little cans, even a woman can lug a dozen from the delicatessen. The man who speeds by a woman, stopped by a flat tire, can't be accused of lack of chivalry. He knows that the way they make jacks these days, even a woman can change a tire...
...stocky man with blond hair walked slowly around the deserted dirt race track, assessing its surface with an expert eye, calculating the bank of its curves. He made a mental note of every hole and soft spot, the oil slicks, the mud clods that could jar a hot rubber tire whirling along at more than 100 m.p.h. Melvin E. ("Tony") Bettenhausen, the year's hottest U.S. driver, and possibly the best since Ralph de Palma, 35 years ago, was planning how to drive a race...
Born. To William Clay Ford, 26, grandson of the automobile maker, and Martha Firestone Ford, 25, tire and rubber heiress: their second daughter; in Detroit. Name: Sheila. Weight...
Exeter started to tire, but it wasn't until 11:50 of the third quarter that Roland Hok chested a ball past the Red and Gray goalie, Lindsey Fisher. Then the freshmen caught fire, and dominated the play with their short-passing game. Mike Blumenfeld scored early in the last period, but the home team held and the game ended...