Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astronomy" than that of Egypt under the Ptolemies, an arithmetical system involving the concept of zero, a complex hieroglyphic writing (much of which is still undeciphered), highly accomplished arts & crafts. Yet the Maya were aboriginal people-without metal tools of any kind, without beasts of burden, without even a wheel...
Nominations for the presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...
Randolph Churchill, Winston's bumptious lecturer-son, got in more trouble with his new Lincoln. Last fortnight a wheel had come off while he was doing 50 in Indiana. This time the trouble was in Connecticut. He got a parking ticket; but that was fixed when it was discovered who he was-a guest of the city of Derby. Then he shot off toward Manhattan. A state trooper, who said it had taken him eight miles to catch up, stopped Randolph outside Westport, pinched him for doing 80. Trial...
...Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...
...Elimination of two-tone paint, nickel-trim caps on the steering-wheel crossbar. Saving: 49½? per item...