Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berkey and his successor, Captain Jerauld Wright, made Admiral, and Captain Harold C. Fitz took command. Last March, under Fitz, the Santa Fe with Fitz at the wheel bravely succored the stricken carrier Franklin. Defying exploding ammunition, Fitz laid her alongside, grappled her to the Franklin while he took off wounded and sent fire fighters aboard. After that they sent the Santa Fe home for overhaul. Since March 1943 she had steamed 221,000 miles...
Marjorie Lawrence, blonde operatic soprano stricken by infantile paralysis four years ago, arrived by plane in Germany after a swing through the Pacific, set out for a singing tour of British camps, still confined to her wheel chair...
Lobengula was a conservative man who liked the old ways best: "making rain" out of goats' entrails, gossiping with his witch doctors, snuffing the air in the royal courtyard, where his dogs gnawed rotting carcasses (of animals, mostly). Sometimes he climbed into his throne (a wheel chair) and dispensed judgment in the good old Matabele way-flinging to the crocodiles a slave who had sipped the royal beer, or impaling an unfaithful wife. He had "a benignant smile" and was popular with his people...
...drove an open car on an exploring trip past Puget Sound inlets, where white salmon trollers and log booms lay moored. Lounging at the wheel, he followed the blue salt water of Hood Canal which lies, fjord-like, in the shadow of steep Olympic Mountain foothills...
...though he retained his virility, the aging Sickles seemed to lose his head. One day, to the horror of the public, he was haled into court, half-blind and in a wheel chair, on the charge of misappropriating the Civil War Monuments Fund. For the second time in his life he was acquitted, amid roars of popular applause. "Your old grandpa is very ill," he wrote soon after to his favorite grandson, adding: "I see big clouds in Europe." Then, at 93, he died...