Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present mess there is much that can be saved. Apparently there are going to be two rival peace groups; that's all right so long as they are real peace groups, don't waste all their energy fighting each other, and act as a healthy balance wheel for such organizations as the Student Defense League, with its thinly-veiled interventionist stand. It is up to the Marx-Stange element to avoid being obstructionist and taking a wholly negative stand, opposing everything but their own domestic policy, and claiming that that is the cure-all for America's troubles. Likewise...
...decline in national wealth. Observers speculated about changes in consumer needs, industrial and occupational shifts. Said New York Timesman Luther Huston: "If there are fewer babies and more old people, there may be more doctors, for instance, who specialize in cardiac diseases than in obstetrics. The market for wheel chairs might outsell the market for perambulators...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was that I had speed cops escorting me and the road was mine...
...Proportional representation tends to bring in men who represent city-wide interests" instead of party wheel-horses, Dean Landis indicated. Under the proposed system, the principal groups in a city are represented according to their numbers...
Richelieu was one of the most cunning, adroit, far-seeing and resourceful minds in political history. First test of any great politician is to hoist himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court...