Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their ways parted. Tito in Yugoslavia organized a Communist-controlled partisan army; Serov back in Russia rounded out his NKVD career as the liquidator of minority nationalities, numbering some millions of people who saw the war as a chance to throw off the Soviet yoke; Pedro became a big wheel in Moscow's Free Germany Committee, and later, under the name of Erno Gero, Stalin's agent in Hungary. When Tito, protected by his 33-division Yugoslav army, broke with Stalin in 1948, it was Erno Gero, Ivan Serov and a whole raft of equally ruthless, scheming...
FOLDAWAY SPARE TIRE, almost small enough to fit in glove compartment, will be brought out by Gates Rubber Co. Tire, which will last 1,000 miles, works like inner tube. After pulling flat tire from wheel, motorist loops Gates tire around rim, inflates it with carbon dioxide gas bottle in kit. Gates thinks tire will be boon to sportscar drivers who are cramped for luggage space...
...Fords, first of the Big Three's 1957 models. They are lower (by four inches), higher priced (from $1 to $104), more powerful (an optional 245 h.p. V8. v. the top 1956 225 h.p. V-8). For the first time. Ford also has two body sizes and two wheel-bases. Customers will have the choice of the 116-in. wheelbase Custom, three inches longer than in '56, or the higher-priced 118-in. wheelbase Fairlane, fully five inches longer. Where Ford virtuously sold safety in 1956 and watched rival Chevrolet carry off the honors by 300,000 units...
...flies, might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men.'' Such precocious youngsters crowded Philip's court. Two of his three sons were deceived by their highborn wives, who paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers and the rising burghers scrabbled greedily for power...
Ordered to stop about 500 yards from the bank, John Kuhel saw a jeepload of U.S. military police rounding the corner, and decided on a desperate chance. He raced his motor, pulled the wheel hard left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand...