Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maestro. In Manchester, England, after an inept pupil backed the learner's car onto a sidewalk, Auto Instructor Handel Andrew indignantly took the wheel, promptly smacked into a lamppost, was fined ?3 ($8.40) for careless driving...
...William H. Clothier has almost magically cajoled California into looking like China, with the gauzy seascapes, the abstract arrangements of seines in sunlight and the ochred skies. But the blunt point of the pictute is to display John Wayne to best advantage-stripped in a bathtub, bloody at the wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks him why he killed a Communist soldier, surely only Wayne could get away with that roast-of-beef expression...
Cadillac's 1956 standard models were only face-lifted from last year. The major change is in the engine, with a boost in horsepower from 250 to 285 on most models. An optional new feature: gold-trimmed front grilles and wheel disks...
Mercury added three new models, including the low-priced, two-door Medalist, with less chrome and decoration. It also upped its horsepower from 198 to 225 on some models, and adopted the Ford safety package: "deep-dish" steering wheel to absorb impacts, crash-resistant door locks, optional seat belts...
...succeed. I convinced myself in talking to them. At 11 p.m. I got word from our people in intelligence that the palace knew about the plot. I was without feeling. I was very tired. The officer asked if we should call it off and I said, 'No, the wheel is turning and it cannot be stopped.' " The wheel made its full turn in the next three days. Gentle Mohammed Naguib, 51, a good front man, was made commander in chief of the army; Farouk abdicated, and his Premier resigned...