Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STUDEBAKER, which pioneered the U.S. market with a mass-produced sports car, will change its design little, but will add a low-slung station wagon to its line...
...night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...
Churchill was working five or six hours a day, eating heartily, and doughtily disregarding the advice of his doctors to stay on the wagon. Among the visitors: Tory Chief Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn (usually consulted on Cabinet changes), Housing Minister Harold Macmillan, and Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton...
...onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage for food, he took refuge from oncoming winter in a deserted shanty, starved to death standing up, leaning against the shanty...
...much as 600 miles for a Sunday pleasure jaunt. Industrial workers were also plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen get from a grateful government...