Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of the barn, a professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the rate of 72 a day-one every seven minutes during three sessions daily-the auctioneer sold new 1961 autos from Europe and Detroit. In the frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When the ten-day auction ended, 617 cars had been sold, about $10 million had changed hands, and the government of Arturo Frondizi had cleaned up a tidy $7,500,000 in profits...
...upheaval. My family (six children) has been residing temporarily with relatives in Pennsylvania and New York awaiting overseas orders. My household goods are partly in permanent storage in Denver, partly in temporary storage to be shipped when my family arrives, and partly with the family. My eight-passenger station wagon is here with me, while my wife drives her father's car. My children have been anxiously hoping for their travel orders, which would have brought them over in January. (When he was asked by my wife what he wanted for Christmas, my nine-year-old son burst into...
...Kennedy's own heart: an aggressive, articulate liberal with shrewd political instincts and a talent for political maneuver. A husky six-footer with dark, close-cropped hair. Lawyer Udall comes from one of Arizona's first families. His grandfather, a Mormon missionary, migrated to Arizona by covered wagon, founded the town of St. Johns (pop. 1,310), where Stew Udall was born. Udall's father was a chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and three other Udalls have been state judges. Udall went to the University of Arizona, where he played on the basketball team, graduated...
Where was Stillman's doctor? Where was the University ambulance (Police station wagon)? Even though this happened in the middle of Harvard Yard, no University facility was prepared to meet this emergency...
Prowling about farther downriver, Graves finds old wagon ruts leading from a ford to the sandstone foundation of a vanished cabin. A man named Henry Welty, the author recalls, built the cabin and bred children and cattle there successfully until one night in 1863 he was slaughtered and scalped by Comanches. Dammed-up river water will deprive Welty's ghost of its local habitation, if not its name, and that is part of the point of Graves's book. Scrub-country legends are worth knowing, as is the country itself, its game and its rivers...