Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jerome Brown had been driving without a license for two years, police say, before fate caught up with him. On May 28 he lost control of his girlfriend's 1989 station wagon while driving on a curvy road in Salisbury, Maryland. The skidding car hit a mailbox and a telephone pole before wrapping itself around a tree. Brown's girlfriend was killed instantly. His 14-year-old daughter died a few minutes later. Brown, 41, who was seriously injured, was allegedly driving drunk. He shouldn't have been on the road in any condition -- his license had been suspended...
Robert DeFeo is grim faced. The L.A. city fire department battalion chief would like to be saving lives, but instead is filling and refilling the coroner's station wagon on perpetual duty in the driveway of Northridge Meadows. DeFeo's crew is using buzz saws and jackhammers and Swiss search dogs, and so far he has turned up nine corpses, each crushed while in bed. The coroner's car leaves but always returns. The heroics occurred earlier, when residents pried neighbors from tight spaces or let them down from the roof with knotted fire hoses. The place is crawling with...
...mean, of course, the fact that it simply isn't plowed here. It seems that here they leave snow clearance to the melting action of the tire pressure of those unfortunates still driving on the treacherous by-ways, so that the streets look like Pompeii with its well-preserved wagon tracks...
...support before the Klaas case, but ((since Davis was captured)) our 800 number has got so many calls we blew out the voice-mail systems." (Not everybody is signing up, however. State assemblyman John Burton notes, "I don't think it's a good idea to load up the wagon with criminals that are felons . . . but who are not grave threats to individual safety...
...came, not coincidentally, at the last moment of baby boomers' cultural powerlessness, during the 1950s, when a big Hollywood musical appeared every few months. It's incredible, in retrospect, that An American in Paris, Royal Wedding, Show Boat, Singin' in the Rain, April in Paris, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kismet, Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Funny Face and The King and I all appeared in movie theaters in a single 2,000-day period...