Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reno, rabid Forty Niners fans had every opportunity to shoot their football winnings at slot machine, crap table and roulette wheel. But they had nothing to gamble with until Quarterback John Brodie passed to Halfback Hugh McElhenny and won the game in the last 54 seconds, 17-13. After that, whether they won or lost at the gaming tables, the long ride home seemed short and sweet...
...marquee lights winked off and Boston gathered itself into a cocoon. "No parades and no tablespoons today. Worlds revolve, nations change hands, but I just stand here, consciously dead. I crawled from loins too old with life. I am a creature of specialization, a power paddle that keeps the wheel going. I look knowledgeable; I laugh at the right jokes; I voice the proper introspective comments about the latest Book-of-the-Month Club classic. I am a vegetable...
...prewar policies, Kennedy went back to Harvard, wrote a thesis that, at the suggestion of New York Timesman Arthur Krock, was expanded into a highly praised book called Why England Slept. Three years later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen...
...Gurion and me," he said, not in arrogance, but in devotion so great that it amounted to identification. One day last fortnight, as he drove into Jerusalem, a wasp flew in the window of Argov's car and stung him on the eyelid. Argov lost control of the wheel and knocked down a cyclist. At the hospital he blanched when the doctor told him the cyclist, a father of four, might not live...
...woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon as she is beyond sight of the town and take the wheel herself for a drive to the beach...