Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life. Hitting 85 m.p.h. on the straightaways of the Speedway's half-mile track before 10,000 racing fans, Flock was in second place behind Thomas when disaster struck. On the 163rd lap of the 100-mile race, Flock's rear axle broke. The right rear wheel went spinning into the infield, and the Hudson rolled over. Brother Fonty, one of the daredevil Flock family,* driving in third place, slammed to a stop and watched. Tim stepped out of the wreck, shaken but unhurt...
...captain held up a broken mirror as a periscope. The decks were deserted. One by one, the trapped men hauled themselves up to the deck. The captain raced to the wheelhouse and found the wheel lashed. The crew searched the ship. Everything that could be moved-the cargo, the crew's razors, even the ship's bill of health-had been taken by the vanished pirates. Only a chart, with the Combinatie's position marked on it, had been left. Cornelius' overworked diesel engine was wheezing at the point of death. The captain ordered a jury...
...more body room, Plymouth moved the engine two inches forward and shifted the steering-wheel housing. Trunk space was increased 30%, glass area 16%, and horsepower pushed up to 100 v. 97 in the old models. One of the simplest changes-yet one of the best-was made in the two-door models. In them, the front seat is divided not in the center, but at a point one-third from the right door. The new seat permits rear-seat passengers to get in & out without squashing their front-seat companions up against the dashboard in front...
...Yale administration views all this striving and social differentiation with an amused tolerance, though twinges of doubt sometimes intrude upon even the most complacent minds. Alert, young President A. Whitney Griswold, himself a big wheel activities man as an undergraduate, confessed to the CRIMSON several years ago that "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead to." His assistant Reuben A. Holden says "The whole accent down here is group activities while at Harvard a man is left pretty much to himself, whether he wants it or not." Professor Weiss...
Unpleasant Aftertaste. In San Rafael, Calif., William O. Weissich Sr. was awarded $500 by the court after testifying that, while he was smoking a cigar on a bus, the lady driver snatched it from his hand, ground it out on the steering wheel and left him "shocked, trembling, mortified and embarrassed...