Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cream-colored Casino, two Syrian textile magnates risked a fortune at baccarat. Smartly dressed socialites played roulette with 100 peso* chips; their cooks were there, too-risking two peso chips on the wheel's turn. If the season ran true to form, at least one despondent loser would sooner or later plunge into the two-foot-deep canal outside the Casino, be ignominiously fished out of the mud unhurt...
Columnist Randolph Churchill, however, still had his. In Chesterfield County, Va., Winston's rambunctious son (who lost a wheel doing 50 in Indiana last November) was fined $50 and costs for doing 75-to-80. With the fine he had paid for doing 80 in Connecticut, that made $105 that Visitor Randolph had contributed to U.S. communities...
...long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel...
...last week the Eisenhower bandwagon, having been given a pull here and a push there, was beginning to roll. "Ike for President" buttons were sprouting in growing numbers. George Allen, whose first loyalty is to Harry Truman, was anxiously stamping out rumors that he had his shoulder to the wheel, that he was even starting to work on an Eisenhower campaign fund. Then, on the day before New Year's, while General Ike was vacationing in Florida with his wife, Cissie Patterson's Washington Times Herald-which likes a sensation-gave the wagon a hefty shove...
Soprano Lawrence, a polio victim, appeared in her now familiar wheel chair to sing the immolation scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. Said one German afterwards: "Wagner has now been officially denazified...