Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perry Dean Ross of nearby Tatum, the driver of the car, put it later in his signed confession: "I held the steering wheel with my left hand and laid the gun (a Mossberg .22 automatic rifle] across the left door. I was going about 85 miles per hour at the time and I fired nine shots into the cafe." One of the slugs entered the head of a 16-year-old Negro, John Earl Reese, who died the next morning. Two others struck and wounded a pair of Negro girls, 13 and 15. That was 18 months...
Like the gyrocompass, the gyroscopic ship stabilizer and the Mark 14 antiaircraft gun sight (developed by Dr. Draper and his associates at M.I.T. in 1941), Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried...
Cushing coolly sailed up to the log barrier, examined it, then spun the wheel and headed across the river in order to get speed enough to drive the launch up over the logs. He came surging back in a hail of musket fire that tore off the sole of his left shoe and ripped out the back of his uniform. The boat breasted the logs and hung suspended, just 10 ft. from the muzzle of one of the ironclad's 8-in. guns. Carefully, Cushing lowered the torpedo into position and gently pulled the 25-ft. line that released...
...Biggest wheel among Schrunk's fellow defendants: Teamster-sponsored Democratic District Attorney William M. Langley, 41, who repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment at committee hearings, e.g., when accused of conspiring with Teamster leaders to expand Portland vice operations. Bill Langley, already under a three-count indictment for malfeasance (e.g., corruption, incompetency, delinquency, etc.) in office, was reindicted on substantially the same charges with a fourth thrown in: receiving a bribe for allowing certain gambling operations...
...gear box apart. When they got it together again, there were 54 nuts and bolts left over. Practical knowledge of their machine's innards helps other drivers get the most out of their engines. Alfonso keeps a steady foot on the throttle, a sure hand on the wheel and leaves the rest to luck. In a race like this week's test at Sebring, so much can go wrong that he feels luck is unusually important. The 5.2-mile course has so many tight turns and wicked switchbacks that brakes heat up and fade, clutches tend to wear...