Word: u-turn
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When he finds himself on a collision course with a ferryboat. Captain Foglemayer sticks his head out of the window and hollers: "Get outa da way, ya punk!'' When he loses his broad overboard, he squalls: "Make a U-turn!" When he gets caught in a passing hurricane, he lashes himself to the wheel-which proceeds to spin like...
...staff. Last week, in Little Rock from his Dallas base, scrappy Charlie McCarty, 42, caught a glimpse of a picture in the making: two white boys approaching a Negro boy and his sister as they walked past an all-white junior high school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture...
After a tasty lunch at the club, Rocko drove across the bridge and on to Storrow Drive, made a U-turn, and found a parking space near the stadium gate. The Harvard band played them to their seats. Sunlight poured down, warming them. The nippy air filled their lungs with clean coolness. Conversation buzzed around them; martial music stirred them; they lent their voices to cheers surging like surf from the sea of happy faces. Awed by it all, they sought each other's eyes...
...city for five hours. Along Lake Shore Drive,, he suddenly left his car to walk for a while, then just as suddenly crossed the drive in the midst of rush-hour traffic. Automobiles were tied up for miles as his motorcade and police escort jockeyed through an illegal U-turn to keep up with the wandering diplomat...
Model 1920 or just off the assembly line, it is a spindly Victorian-looking machine with a rubber bulb horn and a wheezy engine. Its thin-spoked front wheels, poking forward like the forelegs of a praying mantis, can-by police stipulation-negotiate a U-turn in a 25-ft. lane. Up front sits the cabbie, exposed on each side to spring's deluge and winter's blasts, separated from his passenger by half an inch of plate glass and half a century of tradition. "Won't do to get too close to the passenger," explained...