Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening before Raymond Matlock's eighth birthday, his family headed for Washington, N.J., 15 miles south of the Matlock farm, to buy presents for his party. Packed into the new Matlock sedan were Raymond and nine relatives: father at the wheel, mother, brother, three sisters, grandmother, two aunts...
...buyer is still the center of the retail trade, and will probably always remain so. He is the hub of a wheel around which flourish dozens of advisory bureaus connecting every phase of the business. They exist solely to support the buyer. He must go out and bring in the goods that will sell. It is on his success above all that every branch of the retailing industry must stand...
Easter Sunday is the time of family dinners, family reunions, family church-going. Hunched over the wheel of his car, or lurching toward Boston in a train, comes the Harvard student from Delaware, or Ohio, or Louisiana. He cannot spend Easter at home, for the rock-bound Harvard calendar beckons her sons to Cambridge for Monday classes...
...only mild sedative effects" of the type seen in ordinary social drinking. Between 50 and 150 milligrams there is a drop in tension and lowering of inhibitions, and many people begin to lose control of physical movements. Above 150, everybody has lost some control and is unsafe behind a wheel; at 300 milligrams (often below) comes unconsciousness, and between 500 and 700 death...
...Jungle Rot" gives new life to the old satire on safari. Trekking into the heart of the Dark Continent with John E. Hubbard, led by an aged woman in a wheel chair, was ridiculously enjoyable. In an effort to burlesque the "Unforgettable Character" series in the Reader's Digest, T. D. Edwards wrecks a potentially good idea by attempting to hit the "Unforgettable" style, and missing completely. "Alice the Timid Typhoon"--again Updike--is a fable-like story with illustrations. Written in simple, child-like prose, it may conceivably appeal to children...