Word: wheel
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Raymond worked. Raymond got behind the wheel and Peter climbed into the back seat; to two other workers who rode along part way, he seemed perfectly normal...
...Allstate Insurance Co., a Sears, Roebuck subsidiary and third largest of the independents, also chopped its rates. Premiums on cars driven by high-school youths in 44 states will be shaved 15%, provided each youngster completes an auto safety course of 30 classroom hours and six hours behind the wheel (while more than 6,000 of the nation's 25,000 high schools offer such courses, only 350,000 of the 2,000,000 students who come of driving age each year take them...
...President Calvin Fentress Jr., "If we are honestly interested in making our streets and highways safer, then we must see to it that more and better driver-training programs are installed in our secondary schools . . . There is only one man who sets automobile insurance rates-the man behind the wheel...
...Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still don't like the word, perhaps because, complying with the traditional explanation of intolerance, I am ignorant of what it means." The wheel has come full circle and it is a good thing, for not only is the first issue of The Paris Review an example of anti-Zeitgeist literature, but it is an excellent magazine, full of pleasant art and honest writing...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...