Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the reaction against anticlericalism that followed the French Revolution. Both welcomed the metal authority accompanying the westward reach of empire. Though Lamy by no means condoned the military's campaign of extermination against the Apaches and Navajos, he viewed the tribesmen as murderous savages. When his own wagon train was attacked at an Arkansas River crossing in 1867, he and the caravan's military leader shared command in the kind of seven-hour battle beloved by Western film makers. Throughout, the bishop conscientiously joined in the rifle fire...
While Ford was touring the Midwest, law-enforcement authorities were trying to run down a spate of new reports about potential assassins. One mysterious phone call warned that three people were driving from Montreal in a blue station wagon to kill Ford and the visiting Emperor Hirohito (see page...
...less partisan biographer might have made more of these rampant contradictions. Yet The O'Hara Concern does show a side of the author that his posturings obscured. With remarkable discipline, O'Hara stayed on the wagon for the last 16 years of his life. He could be generous to friends and competitors (he extravagantly called Hemingway "the outstanding author since the death of Shakespeare"); his letters to his daughter reveal a tenderness that few outsiders ever suspected...
...face. Like the Harrises, "Adams" and the woman made a good first impression on their neighbors. Later, the couple were joined by a girl who was slighter and taller than the first. "Adams" generally left the apartment at about 10:30 in the morning, driving away in a station wagon and returning in the early afternoon. But the two women were rarely seen around the neighborhood...
...Dodge Aspen. They are part of an ambitious effort by the company to attract more of the kind of higher-income-bracket, relatively recession-resistant customers who have been buying the successful new $5,000 Chrysler Cordoba. The Volare and Aspen lines will include sport coupe, sedan and station-wagon models, each featuring all-independent suspension to give big-car driving feel...