Word: tow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, around a bend in the road careened a modern-day death demon: a ten-ton truck, thundering along at 60 m.p.h., and towing another truck behind it on a steel cable. Either the brakes had failed or the drivers had lost control. The people shrieked in horror as they realized that the trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side...
...last year's contest with Davenport, tow pass interceptions were instrumental in setting up Leverett's 14-6 victory. In the crucial Winthrop game this year, Bunny defenses picked up a fumble on their own 17-yard line to stall what might have been a game-winning drive...
Before its notoriety as the site of tragic riots, the Watts area of Los Angeles was more mildly famous for an architectural oddity, a trio of 100-ft.-tall latticework spires called the Watts Towers. Inlaid with 75,000 sea shells and countless bits of crockery, the tow ers were the lifetime hobby of an immigrant Italian tilesetter named Simon Rodia, who built them by hand in his backyard (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). Since 1963 the Towers have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board as a historic monument, and, in the eyes of younger West Coast artists...
Paul Harris and Bob Powers took fifth and sixth for the Friars. Tow-headed, grinning Joe Ryan and tall, dark, and oh-so-formful Jim Baker, an unlikely tandem, kept the Crimson in the ball game by sweeping eight, and nine...
Capping a recent series of strikes in places as diverse as Libya and Alaska, Marathon last week announced that it had begun drilling the first exploratory oil well ever attempted in Northern Ireland, also prepared to tow a large drilling rig from the British coast into the North Sea, where it will explore one of the world's richest new oil and gas regions. In Bavaria, where it is making its first big move into petrochemicals, it is starting to build a plant that will use Libyan crude to manufacture acetylene and ethylene. In the U.S., the company...