Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Complication. In Akron, after Chandler D. Cutlip, 62 and partially blind, was arrested weaving down a street behind the wheel of a panel truck, he pleaded guilty to driving without a license, added, "I can't see well enough...
...those cars with a low chassis. The wind caught his long scarf, wrapped it round the wheel, and in one savage second strangled him. The car skidded, buckled, reared against a tree, and was nothing but a heap of wreckage with one wheel spinning like a roulette wheel...slower, slower, slower in the silence...
...sake of an assumed guarantee of labor peace implied by Beck control-despite the fact that Anheuser-Busch always retains the power to cancel any of its distributorships without notice. Interoffice memos referred to Dave Jr. as "a spoilt child," to Old Dave as "His Majesty the Wheel." Even so, Old Dave was handy to have around. Wilson admitted that he got Beck to intervene on the brewery's behalf in a union jurisdictional fight over the construction of an Anheuser-Busch Los Angeles plant. Wilson also once consulted with Dave on the subject of the attitude of Anheuser...
Beck, explained Loomis to the committee, "was extremely angry because I had stood up to him and treated him like he was just an ordinary mortal. He might be a big wheel, but as far as I was concerned, he was just a hubcap. He said that nobody was going to tell him [what to do]-that his conscience was going to be his guide...
Kadar's chief torturer was Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Farkas. Not only did Farkas make Kadar submit to utter degradation, but he had him castrated. The turn of the Communist wheel made Janos Kadar Premier of Hungary last October. Forecast Paloczi-Horvath: "Now he can take revenge. He has power...