Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturer who dedicated his fortune to putting Britain's green racing colors into the lead on Formula I Grand Prix auto circuits, built his first Vanwall racing car in 1954, two years later won his first victory at the Silverstone International Trophy race with Stirling Moss at the wheel, and reached a peak in 1958 when his Vanwall beat the Italians and Germans in six out of ten Grand Prix races for the championship; of pneumonia; in London...
...impulse -range from less than 1% to about 10%. The evidence is almost always circumstantial, and the chance of identifying an automobile death as anything other than "accidental" is just about nil unless the suicide himself thoughtfully provides a note or blurts out his intent before he takes the wheel...
Finishing his first day on the new job and anxious to hurry home to his five children and ailing wife, Jackson slid behind the wheel of his light truck and switched on the ignition. He had driven only three blocks when a bomb exploded under his seat, sending the truck careening into a telephone pole with enough force to kill him instantly...
...yolk bearing an advertisement for a no-pressure printing technique, proving that the ovum can become a commercial. Noses nudge knowingly from a page dealing with psephology. Five pages of pebbled and scaly abstract photography resolve themselves into a closeup of human toes to make the point: "The wheel is an extension of the foot." One entire spread is printed in Leonardo-like "mirror writing," and another is set upside down just to show how absurd the whole concept of books can be. Indeed, the authors of this eye-stopping, mind-wrenching whatzis have created the ultimate in non-books...
...spare, hardsell style that would be instructive to many an advertising copywriter, the catalogue once plugged a Combination Compass, Match Case and Whistle by noting that "the Whistle is loud enough to be heard a long distance." Bean's Deer Toter, a stretcher ingeniously rigged to a bicycle wheel, was described as a contrivance on which "your deer looks so much better than when dragged over the ground." The catalogue also promoted Bean's two highly successful books. One of them, Hunting, Fishing and Camping, a slender, lore-packed manual, sold 150,000 copies, contains duplicate chapters...