Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gunmen who were fleeing from the police Tuesday night in an 85-mile-an-hour chase suffered minor fractures when they smashed up near Plympton Street. Sigtry Ofalsson, the fisherman who fell asleep at the wheel and cracked into a tree on the same spot, died last weekend in the Cambridge City Hospital...
...part, from an automobile accident which occurred one day in August 1946, as she was driving down New York's Saw Mill River Park way on her return from Hyde Park. Her car collided with two other automobiles. Mrs. Roosevelt's face was smashed against the steering wheel. Four other people were also injured...
...went to sleep," she said bitterly. "It was the sound of the motor. Those poor people!" When Major Harry Hooker, her husband's old law partner, cautioned her in some alarm that there was nothing to be gained by advertising the fact that she had dozed at the wheel, she cried: "But I did! That's what caused it all." She confessed her negligence at great length to reporters and the police - practically forcing authorities to take away her driver's license for 3½ months, and prompting some nameless wag to erect a sign...
Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
...down. The 18-foot-long car has a 165-horsepower engine with a built-in air scoop in the hood to feed air to the carburetor, and a top speed of 135 m.p.h. Its instrument panel is finished in oyster-white leather, along with leather trim in the steering wheel and door handles. When it goes into limited production next fall, the Pan American will sell for about...