Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lugged the mysterious find into the house of a neighbor, George Epperson, a Rock Island Railroad blacksmith. Epperson took it to the shop, but none of the other metalsmiths could tell him what it was. Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it. On the Fourth of July, young Don and his friends found a use for their find: they took it out after dark and put on a fireworks display by knocking it with a hammer. "The only trouble was," said Don, "we burnt...
...worn by none other than Giant Second Baseman Eddie Stanky) was as genuine as a Spalding label. So were his cleated shoes, his tilted cap and his shambling, plate-bound walk. It was hard not to believe he was some weathered stray from the Polo Grounds who would presently wheel, find himself in the wrong park, and bolt for the dugout...
Last week, dedicating the $26 million waterworks, President Miguel Aleman spun a wheel that sent Lerma water surging down 40 miles of mountain ditches and tunnels and into the capital's ducts. For the first time in modern history, Mexico City (pop. 2,334,000) had a 24-hour water supply (except in fashionable Chapultepec Heights, where installation of special pumps had not yet been completed...
...stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening...
...Wheel. British troops in Egypt are the key to British power in the Middle East. The Suez Canal zone which they protect is still the lifeline of an empire and one of the Western world's prime strategic links with Asia. On it ultimately depends the defense of Greece, Turkey...