Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel...
...with more than 500,000 Garands. The Olins ran the St. Louis Ordnance plant, turned out a total of over six billion loaded rounds of ammunition. At war's end Franklin Olin stepped down as president (at 89, he is still a director), and John, long the big wheel in fact, took over...
...Wheel (United Artists) is a racing-car movie, and its cyclonic energy and pace are likely to leave audiences with dust in their eyes. As a chesty, first-year driver, Mickey Rooney burns up the racing circuit from Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography...
...wheel hadn't collapsed when it caught in a downtown trolley track yesterday, David K. Specter '52 would have bicycled to New Haven today for the Yale game. Others are using loss hardy modes of transportation...
...amateur. But sometimes they become so involved that even Graves is obliged to pause and scratch his head. Not for long. When this happens, he merely makes his narrator say: "Here my cart begins to stick ... so clogged . . . that I shall have a troublesome task to drive the wheels ... by heaving and hauling at the spokes." At this, of course, the friendly reader unconsciously puts his own shoulder to Author Graves's mired wheel-and before you can say "White Goddess" the lusty, likable potboiler is bowling down the road again...