Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having spoken, Harry Truman slipped behind the wheel of the Imperial, Bess got in the front seat beside him, and they rolled on east. A day and a half later the ex-President, in shirtsleeves, drove up in front of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. It was the Trumans' first return to the capital since they left on Jan. 20, and they just wanted to "have a good time" before pushing on to Philadelphia and New York. Would Truman see President Eisenhower? No, said Harry. "He's too busy to see every Tom, Dick and Harry that...
...This year, in the interests of safety, no driver was allowed to be at the wheel for longer than 80 laps (about 700 miles) or 18 hours...
...clock one morning last week, two Texas state highway patrolmen spotted a flashy new green Mercury hardtop convertible barreling into the shadowed outskirts of Houston with a "suspicious" young man at the wheel. They pulled him to the side of the road and peered into the car. A blonde girl of 15 was sitting beside him. The driver, one Alton Franks, 19, explained that the girl was his wife. The cops grunted noncommittally and asked for his driver's license. He had none. Then they spotted a .38-caliber pistol on the back seat. They hauled Franks...
...Star Dust back into the air. Working under intermittent fire from German snipers and artillery, they repaired two of the plane's engines with tools they had found in burnt-out machine shops. Bribing military police to look the other way, they salvaged an engine and a wheel from another downed...
...Casino. Smith, who owns no part of Harold's but runs it on salary for his two sons, Raymond Alonzo and Harold, decided long ago that volume was the key to casino success. The operator of a smalltime roulette wheel in Modesto, Calif., Smith had to close up shop in the '30s when he "backed the wrong man for district attorney." Ray sent his son Harold to Reno, and soon the young man started Harold's Club with the old family roulette wheel and two battered nickel slot machines. Then Smith and his other son joined Harold...