Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then on Margaret moved swiftly. She mobilized her five servants, overnight loaded two rented moving vans with furniture and a third with the cocker spaniels. Next morning, putting the doctors off with the excuse that she first had "to drive some friends to the airport," Margaret got behind the wheel of her flamingo-hued, air-conditroned 1957 Lincoln Capri, put Sheila Joy behind her in a white-and-brown Mercury station wagon, and led the bizarre caravan highballing out of Atlanta...
...runs the Peninsula Festival, the Cincinnati Symphony's energetic Conductor Thor Johnson, 44, tries to present "musical experiences that are not included in wintertime concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann...
...except for five years) Liberal Prime Minster. When John was eight, father Diefenbaker took his family to a Saskatchewan crossroads where the northern prairies turn into a subarctic wasteland of muskeg, timber and lakes. There one day father Diefenbaker tied a red bandanna to the rim of a wagon wheel and, counting the turns of the wheel, measured off a 160-acre homestead. That spring he broke the virgin sod to the plow and put in his first crop of wheat...
SMALL-CAR MARKET is growing so fast (TIME, July 15) that American Motors Corp. will bring back economy-sized (six-cylinder engine, 100-in. wheel base) Rambler in 1958 after four-year lapse. New car will be stablemate for company's more luxurious (108-in. wheel base) Rambler, whose sales so far in 1957 are 35% ahead of last year...
...Tucson. Ariz., police traveling 65 to 100 mph were outdistanced but finally caught Speedster Delos Kebler Knox Jr., by trapping him in a roadblock, promptly impounded his ex-1948 Ford on the ground that it had 1) no body, 2) no windshield, 3) no floor boards, 4) steering wheel sawed in half...