Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Labor Party, lost two seats, ending up with only two. All of which meant that O'Neill would probably have five full years to keep Northern Ireland moving. It also meant five easy years for the Prime Minister's chauffeur, for O'Neill likes to wheel around his official black Humber him self. The chauffeur sits beside him on the front seat...
...derailment was identical to one which occurred Nov. 20, As the car rolled into the station to pick up passengers, one wheel slipped off the track. The MBTA dispatcher was unable to explain the two accidents...
...middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, high above the inky East River, 1,700 passengers in two trains were suspended like riders on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. "The wind would blow," said Mary Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
...rainy day in Johnson country, and precisely at 8 a.m. on Election Day the President and Lady Bird arrived at Johnson City's one-story stone Pedernales Electric Cooperative Building to vote. They cast ballots 1 and 2. Then, with the President at the wheel of a white Chrysler station wagon, they led a 20-car caravan of reporters and Secret Service men on a jouncing, 51-mile, four-hour ramble over the Johnson "propity...
...thought I had stopped." There was Betty Skelton, an advertising executive from Detroit, who set a ladies' land speed record of 277 m.p.h. There were the Summers brothers, Bob and Bill, who showed up with a car powered by four 600-h.p. Chrysler engines -one for each wheel. There were the Arfons brothers, Walt and Art, who showed up with two separate cars-because they have hardly spoken to each other in years...