Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oval wheels are hitched together in pairs, two of them replacing each drive wheel of a vehicle. Between their hubs is a longitudinal bar. The real axle is pivoted on the bar's center. The wheels are geared together in such a way that one of them is always on end when the other is on its side. As the wheels revolve, the bar moves like a seesaw. Its center, carrying the axle, does not move up or down, so the vehicle can ride as smoothly as if it had round wheels...
After a while the automatic pilot went out of commission and the passengers stood watches at the wheel to spell the crew. The drinking water turned brown. Those who could eat chewed miserably on bologna sandwiches and cheese crackers, or starchy concoctions slapped up by lola Nicholas, a fry-cook who had never been aboard a ship before...
...fashioned sense, but we do have freedom. Plenty of nations today have sovereignty without freedom. Our people know that the old-style colony is a dead thing. But they also know that there's no sense turning colonies into little nations; that would be like rebuilding two-wheel carriages into four-wheel carriages-in this world of airplanes...
Precept & Example. In Memphis, Traffic-Safety Expert Forrest Mottweiler explained to the ambulance driver why he had crashed into a concrete post: he had fallen asleep at the wheel. In Los Angeles, William V. Mendenhall of Angeles National Forest Service was checking plans for the annual fire-prevention campaign when the pack of matches he was carrying in his hip pocket set his trousers afire. In Baltimore, Kinsey H. Dillon was indicted for evading payment of $4,819 in income taxes for 1945-46, the same years he was employed as a government auditor to check reports of income...
...government said yes, Communist troops would enter China's southland both east and west of Nanking, would then wheel coastward to cut off Shanghai. If the government said no, Communist troops were primed to cross the river by assault. In the vital lower Yangtze, they were 400,000 against the Nationalists...