Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borivli. Outside this town the train halted and the prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...
Drawing alongside, Policeman Jural found Arnold D. Beckermann behind the wheel, a suicide. Oppressed by business worries, he had become further discouraged at the prospect of an arrest, shot himself through the head, stopped the car as he died...
Sacre. The curtain went up on some 40 Russian peasants, all adolescent youths and girls, dancing in a turbid wheel-like formation to woodwind music which was restive, foreboding. A haggish old woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes...
...sailed day & night; in bad weather sat up, in good weather set his course, lashed the wheel, turned in. At whatever islands he touched he would make repairs, revictual, play tennis or football if he could. He kept fit. The Firecrest had no auxiliary engine, but Gerbault almost never accepted a tow in or out of harbor, liking the excitement of closely calculated navigation under sail. From the South Seas he went through Torres Strait across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, north to St. Helena, to the Cape Verde Islands (where he stayed ten months...
Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, who commanded the first airplane to fly from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii, motoring near San Antonio, smashed into a bus, suffered lacerations of the face, concussion of the brain, a lung punctured by a spoke of the steering wheel...