Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with Brooklyn trying desperately to overhaul the front-running St. Louis Cardinals, Newcombe was wheel horse of the Dodger staff. At 23, instead of pacing himself, he worked as if he were in a hurry to catch a train-motioning impatiently for the ball no matter whether he had just thrown a third strike or had one belted out of the park...
...Matter of Tinkering. It was generally agreed, that the conference would produce no definitive, radical or inspiring solution. It seemed likely that a series of short-range adjustments, like a shovelful of gravel under a skidding wheel, might help pull Britain out of the immediate financial mudhole in which she was floundering. There would be more mudholes ahead; to meet them, the conference might set up a long-range approach through a permanent Anglo-American staff for economic cooperation...
...Laurents spent their summers at He d'Orléans, near Quebec. It was there that Lawyer St. Laurent, master of the house and the law, failed to master the automobile. Time & again he smacked the family car into the gateposts. At the wheel, he sat up so ramrod-straight that the children often giggled. Thereupon he would stop the car and refuse to go on until the laughing stopped. He still does not drive a car; when he wants to ride in Ottawa, he calls a taxi...
...wench'll settle down," laughed another. Oddly enough, those who had expressed their skepticism were among the next to be accused. Named among the new witches were John Procter, who had cured his maid's fits by plumping her down at a spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there sits Goody Cory on the beam, suckling a yellow bird betwixt her fingers...
...driver fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into a streetcar. Adenauer's face was badly injured, still bears scars. While he was still in the hospital, Cologne's mayor died, and a delegation of the city council dropped in to inform Adenauer of the news. "They sent a delegation," Adenauer grins, "because they had heard of my severe head injuries. They wanted to make sure I was still normal." Satisfied that he was, the city council elected him mayor...