Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other living man, possibly because he has been at it for 35 years. At 73, he holds the record for 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.) ; 3,000 miles (at 165 m.p.h.); for 24 hours (at 161.84 m.p.h.), among others. Last week old Ab Jenkins climbed behind the wheel again in a Class C stock car 24-hour endurance trial at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats...
...week's end airline officials decided that there was nothing to do but wheel their brand-new plane into a hangar and take it apart...
...diversifying. Once tires were 95% of the business; now they are 60%. The world's biggest producer of natural and synthetic rubber (1,000,000 Ibs. daily), Firestone makes several thousand rubber products, from the tiniest vacuum seal to 4-ft. snow tires for arctic tractors, plus truck-wheel rims, jet-engine parts, Corporal missiles, refrigerators, food mixers, golf clubs, electric clocks, plastic luggage, textile yarns and thousands of other items...
Buddhism evolved out of the complex faith and practice of Hinduism. The Hindu idea that each man leads life after life on an endlessly turning wheel of suffering determined by one's past actions (karma) was assumed by Buddha. The way to escape the turning, he taught, was a practical procedure, uncluttered by theology, liturgy or a pantheon of gods: what held one to the wheel was the ever-changing attraction and repulsion that the self experiences for the things and happenings of the world; the resolute practice of detachment on the one hand, and heightened awareness...
...comedy was provided by a clutch of Albanians and Egyptians. The Albanian bicycles kept falling to pieces, and one of their riders was last seen alongside a road in Poland ruefully studying a wheel that had parted company from its bike. One of the Egyptians, Hassib Farouk, instead of resting after the day's lap scurried about to buttonhole unwary spectators and explain: "I have only been riding four months...