Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, 86, gentle, mild-mannered Representative from Texas' rich ninth district (Galveston and environs), the oldest member of Congress, in which he had served continuously for the past 30 years, 26 of them in a wheel chair; in Bethesda...
...spent the afternoon and one more day in Virginia, enjoying the holiday from Washington's steamy heat, strolling over the wooded, 210-acre estate of Stanley Woodward, State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the wheel of an open convertible, he drove back to Washington at a steady 50-mile clip (several times hitting 65 on the straightaway). At Memorial Bridge a Secret Serviceman took over and Harry Truman rode soberly on to the White House, to pick up his cudgels...
They ran for a piece of high ground north of town, picking up 72-year-old Mrs. Lula Packwell in her wheel chair on the way. At first, Mrs. Packwell was danged if she'd leave, even though the water was sloshing into her living room. But they took her along anyway...
Gandhi broke his shell. He decided manual labor was essential to the good life; he still thinks Indians will find peace only through making their own clothes on the charka (spinning wheel). So he gave up a legal practice bringing in about ?5,000 a year, moved to a farm settlement where his helpers worked the ground, and began to get out a newspaper, Indian Opinion...
Adele Marsh went to Reno in 1943 to end her brief wartime marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...