Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danced, and they watched the fireflies a while before calling it a night. Then Sir Jock drove Mrs. Carberry home, and the Earl, Miss Caldwell. Several hours later the Earl's car was found on a lonely road in the bush. Crumpled on the floor beneath the wheel was the dead body of the Earl, a bloodied bullet hole near the left ear. It looked like suicide-but there was no gun to be seen...
...inquest the Government's pathologist, one Dr. Vint, said he believed the Earl had been murdered. Dr. Vint further guessed that two shots had been fired through the window as the Earl sat at the wheel, that the murderer had then driven the car to the remote road and arranged the body to suggest suicide...
Turkish equipment is poor. They have outmoded French-made Schneider 7 5-mm. artillery, some Mauser rifles, obsolete 105-mm. howitzers, German 1888 Mannlicher rifles, less than 100 anti-aircraft guns, a few out-of-date Russian-made six-ton tanks and six-wheel armored cars, perhaps 400 planes, mostly British Bristols, German Heinkels, U. S. Martins...
...sent on ahead to Portugal three trunks full of her furs and most of the enormous treasure with which she and Carol fled Rumania. Last week she simply sent her servants out of the Andalusia Palace, gathered up a purse containing her jewelry, and with Carol at the wheel stepped into his Mercedes "for a drive." They were soon bowling along in the suburbs of Seville, trailed as usual by a police car. Then Carol tramped full down on the accelerator. Over the Andalusian and Estremaduran plains they tore madly for 100 miles. The police were left far behind...
...fired in the air and captured the kid; William and Emmett ducked through the back streets, until they came to a parked car with the keys in it. They stole it. They had never driven, but William had seen his mother do it, so he climbed behind the wheel and started off. Some 48 hours later, after stealing two more cars (one a policeman's with a .38-calibre revolver inside), after sleeping one night in a sand pit, one night in a dog kennel, they stopped at last at Echo Lake-a small, boarded-up summer resort where...