Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hostages. A middle-aged Farm Security Administrator of Little Rock, Frank Horsfall, was quietly driving home when armed men began to burst from the bushes beside the road. Five climbed into the back seat of the car, and one took the wheel. A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape. He quizzed his captors about prison conditions, learned that they believed they were abused, since they said the trusties used bull whips on them. They admitted that they had killed a guard...
...pupils with canes, crutches, wheel chairs arrived at their new school at East 1 9th and Downing Streets, next to Denver's Children's Hospital, five teachers and a nurse ushered them in. The children sat in its red leather chairs, hobbled up its ramps (just for exercise, the school had a few stairs to its observation tower), found handrails along every wall, adjustable chairs and tables, two lavatories, a drinking fountain and a grassy outdoor playground next to each classroom. Other equipment: arts & crafts shops, sewing machines, two model kitchens...
Sweat, Blood, Loneliness. Senator McNary warmed up his 12,000 listening Oregonians with a salute to the Oregon Trail. In a country where pioneers' picnics are an annual event and where the wheel marks of wagon trails still show near Emigrant Springs Park, that is as necessary as a tribute to Robert E. Lee once was in the South. But the Senator, who still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks...
...contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce...
Last week the U. S. defense program resembled a great locomotive, ready to go. Steam was up, in the shape of plans made and contracts drawn-$11,000,000,000 worth. But so far this giant locomotive had not yet turned a wheel. Its drive-rods were at dead centre...