Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better or worse-Ike Eisenhower had boldly taken the wheel and steered the U.S. back toward the promised middle of the road, like a man who knows exactly where he is going...
Carhop. In Lima, Ohio, when Andrew Moseley got out of his car to inspect the damage after a collision, a stranger slipped in behind the wheel, drove away...
...Africa has changed but little, its people are changing fast. The white man's 20th century has shattered the crude, tribal world which once gave meaning and sanction to the black man's life. In forests where 50 years ago there were no roads because the wheel was unknown, no schools because there was no alphabet, no peace because there was neither the will nor the means to enforce it, the sons of slaves dig for the raw material (copper, uranium, vanadium) of the Atomic...
Barbara Brown, 16, has been a pretty big wheel at Alabama's Shades Valley High School-honor student, homecoming queen, vice president of the student body and member of a sorority. A senior this year, Barbara came to the conclusion that sororities and fraternities were doing Shades Valley no good. Most of her schoolmates live in the well-to-do suburbs of Birmingham, but nonetheless the student body seemed split by snobbery. Barbara and some of her friends complained to Principal Frank A. Peake...
After the speed tests came the stability tests; at high speed, the test driver twisted the wheel hard left. The tires squealed as the car rocked far over and skidded around. Then came scores of other tests. The car was sent hurtling around right-angle turns, driven over cunningly contrived bumps that jarred the teeth of the driver (and would have thrown a less-skilled man into the ditch). It was sent splashing through a shallow tank of water. For six months the car was driven, in well-shrouded secrecy, until it had piled up more than 100,000 miles...