Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steep gorge of the Beirut River. All five adults in the car were killed at once; the girl died hours later. The charred body of Fayet Esrouer came to rest sitting on a cliffside rock, feet propped up as if still on brakes, and hands still clutching the wheel that was no longer there. On the asphalt of the highway, the motorcycle cop was sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes in a jeep sat dazed and bleeding behind shattered shatterproof glass. Stopped still farther back, Sami Solh's limousine turned round and sped up the mountain road. The assassins...
...strum. No fingering necessary . . . You can go on TV with your own guitar and your own entertainment." This invitation to the arts is part of an advertisement for the Dial-A-Chord, a $12 gadget that enables a fledgling guitarist to change chords at the flick of a plastic wheel and presumably to toss off a habanera at first strumming. Music merchants on their way home last week from their annual convention in Chicago went armed with dozens of such labor-saving and interest-killing devices designed to hook some of the passive listeners from the record market. Among them...
Moss is quiet and self-contained. He drives with expressionless calm, seated well back from the wheel. Moss seldom smokes, does not drink, keeps himself fit with long hours in a gym. A superb tactician, Moss often tags along in a preceding driver's slipstream, taking advantage of the reduced wind resistance. To Moss, driving is a "kind of poetry in motion-a feeling of rhythm, of perfect balance...
...young, and though they may change companions from year to year, they rarely come alone. In the bay that once knew only fishing boats, as many as 80 yachts may lie at anchor. The narrow streets hum with Ferraris, Lancias, Mercedes and Aston Martins. To be seen at the wheel of a mere Jaguar or Austin-Healey is considered ordinary. To drive a Thunderbird is definitely parvenu...
...Connor's well-laid and supposedly secret plans had leaked in widening Manhattan medical circles. The marching dimes will right wheel. From facing an infectious disease and its complications, they will turn to attack arthritis and malformations that are present at birth. Though utterly different in origin, these disorders have something in common with paralytic polio-they cause long-term if not lifelong disablement, require vast sums for costly care of helpless victims. The N.F.I.P. sees these targets as first of a series, hopes to conquer them by the same blitz tactics that it used against polio, then move...