Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already tuning up. By noon, three hours before the start of the big Bridgehampton Cup race, some 35,000 spectators lined the closed-course route. They craned at one of the three killing right-angle turns, or hurried down to the bridge where the cars jumped to a four-wheel takeoff. Some were attracted by the morbid sudden-death aspect of the sport, but mostly they were dedicated sports-car fans...
...Ferrari held the lead until the 16th lap, when Wacker, president of the S.C.C.A., gunned the Allard in front. On the 21st lap Spear, 36, driving all out, took the lead. Wacker made one more bid. For a good part of the final lap, the Allard and Ferrari ran wheel to wheel on the two-lane road until Spear pulled ahead to win by a couple of car lengths. Time for the 100 miles (25 laps): 1:11:42, an average of 83.6 m.p.h...
...years ago, the bricklayer, painter, historian and world statesman who has mastered every wheel of fortune but roulette, was asked by a U.S. reporter: "If you had it all to do over, would you change anything, Mr. Churchill?" A nostalgic look flitted over the great man's face. "Yes," he said. "I wish I had played the black instead of the red at Cannes and Monte Carlo...
...Architectural Design, and of late a visiting professor of Architecture at Ohio University. Frost was fatally injured when his car ran off the road and plunged into a ditch about five miles northeast of Athens, Ohio. Police said he apparently suffered a heart attack or fell asleep at the wheel...
Suddenly, the Engle-Stanko spun wildly on the turn into the straightaway, and the right front wheel locked into the guard rail. The car rode the rail for about 100 feet, plunged under a footbridge and hurtled into a screaming group of spectators. Reid was decapitated; two spectators and a track guard were killed; 48 were hospitalized, nine of them seriously injured. Said Charlie Engle sadly: "I could see it coming. Reid was just trying too hard. That's all there is to it. He tried too hard...