Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start as a Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed his home-town popularity into a wealthy G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires. He has continued to do well as a driver abroad. At the wheel of a racing car he is an artist. His fine mechanic's ear is attuned to the engine's telltale throb; his feet and hands are sensitive to every vibration. He rarely strains his car, rarely pushes it past the limits of mechanical endurance. His technique is ideal...
...foreign policy was like the house policy of the gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
...just after the turn of the century, in the golden age of U.S. opera. On the stage of the Metropolitan the great Australian-born Soprano Nellie Melba was singing Marguerite's spinning-wheel aria in Gounod's Faust. In midphrase Nellie was interrupted by the clatter of half a dozen wax cylinders which smashed down one after the other from the fly floor high above the stage. There, in brown suit and wing collar, crouched a spidery little man over an Edison cylinder gramophone with a horn almost as big as he was. Although he lost the Melba...
...Buffalo-Springfield Roller Co.'s 16-ton ''Kompactor," which packs roads by exerting 480 lbs. of pressure per sq. in. with its four giant roller wheels. Each wheel is faced with staggered rows of steel pads that form the compacting surfaces...
...Tourneau's experimental 35-ton "electric-wheel" truck which can operate in roadless open country. Its 335-h.p. diesel engine feeds power to each of the truck's six wheels, powering each wheel individually without any shifting of gears...