Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm?" Shouted the crowd: "Yes!" Everett Dirksen was on hand, too. "We are gathered here together to hold up each other's hands," said he, recalling how Moses needed two men to hold up his hands so that the Israelites could go on winning. "All hands to the wheel, Bob!" cried Dirksen, in the mixed metaphor of the year. "I am in your corner to the last ditch." Bob himself told the delegates that he had been sitting up most of the night figuring, and he could not see how Eisenhower could get more than 560 votes...
...Servant Robert." At the start of the week, Taft, taking the wheel himself, drove from Washington to Baltimore for a meeting with the Maryland delegation. Asked if he had won any of them to his side, he said: "They just don't rush up to you and say, 'Now we're for you.' It just doesn't happen, that's all. It hasn't happened to General Eisenhower either." Commented Governor Theodore McKeldin, favorite-son candidate to whom the Maryland delegation is committed: "The understanding in this state is that...
...headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back to his car. At first he wanted to take the wheel, but soon meekly subsided with, "Home, James...
...Benz. Another Mercédès, also with German drivers, was second. Third went to a British-driven Nash-Healey. And fourth, of the 17 cars that managed to finish, was fagged-out Cunningham, who, after 19½ hours of driving, had turned the wheel over to Spear. Winning, and record, distance set by the Mercédès-Benz: 2,320 miles, at an average speed of 96.67 m.p.h. Old (1951) record, set by a British Jaguar: 2,238 miles. The Cunningham covered 2,112 miles...
...furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...