Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting out on a triumph. "If I felt any better," he told reporters at Washington's Union Station, "I couldn't stand it." He seemed to be certain that he was embarking on a sort of political Sheridan's Ride, and that his straggling troops would wheel, cheer, and rally behind him as he crossed the continent. As he began making the first of many off-the-cuff, rear-platform speeches, he announced again and again and again, that he was certain to be reelected...
...winner was cocksure little (135-Ib.) Mauri Rose, at the wheel of a Blue Crown Special, the same car (four cylinders, front-wheel drive, no superchargers) that he won with last year. After averaging a record 119.8 m.p.h., Rose took two laps for insurance. Then he took a couple more. He had his speech all ready for the newsreel cameras when Hollywood's beauteous Barbara Britton tried to kiss him in the winner's cage: "There's a lady I want to kiss first ... I hope you'll understand. We're going to be married...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., radio's quiz-witted Phil Baker got a $200 fine, a go-day sentence (suspended) and court orders to mount the water wagon for a year, after he was nabbed at the wheel of a weaving...
...commodity tax comes off canned fruit, fruit juices, vegetables, soup, fish, meats and poultry, breakfast cereals, spaghetti, macaroni and wheel chairs. This will cost the government $20 million a year, may save the consumer as much as $30 million...
...Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...