Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooperation Wanted. Betsey Barton can now take care of herself entirely. She can even cook from a wheel chair (keeping pots & pans in bottom drawers instead of top ones) and mop ("not too clean, of course...
...Lionel Barrymore, who heads a Hollywood committee backing Dewey and Bricker, was given an impressive reception when, speaking from a wheel chair, he told the crowd they were soon to hear the voice of a new, vibrant, forceful and courageous leader...
...Hoof and Wheel. The Japanese were there in force and they were mobile, ahorse, afoot and truck-fed. They could marshal superiority in numbers at any point they chose. They had a fifth column of diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...
...German 88s. Grimly they hung on, giving U.S. Lieut. General Omar Bradley time to take Cherbourg. Grimly, after the surprise U.S. breakthrough at Saint-Lô, they pushed down and held the north arm of the Falaise-Argentan pincer. Only when that was done could the Canadians themselves wheel and cross the Seine...
...flies, the acrid, sickening stench made a horrible fantasy that our eyes could not accept. German tank in the road. Close by it were the three charred naked bodies of it crew. Near by, a troop carrier had plunged off the road. Its headless driver was still at the wheel...