Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closer to Travis. As he approached the airbase, he discovered that the hydraulic system had failed and that the landing gear would not lower automatically. Now down to an altitude of only 700 ft., Kimes made a wide, climbing circle while Engineer Robertson and Second Officer Webb cranked the wheels down manually. Then Robertson crawled down through a hatch in the cockpit floor to insert a pin in the nose wheel to guard against its collapsing-a required procedure when hydraulic pressure fails...
...also worth nine points toward his second Grand Prix championship, boosted his 1965 total so far to 27-ten more than his closest competitor. And it proved, for the nth time, that James Clark, O.B.F., of Edington Mains, Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland, is the world's quickest man on wheels. It was only nine years ago that Clark drove in his first auto race, only five years ago that he sat behind the wheel of a Grand Prix car for the first time in his life. Today, at 29, he is the man to beat in any kind of race...
...Western governments these days talk bravely of a dramatic "first 100 days." In South Viet Nam, where few regimes hope to stay in power that long, new Premier Nguyen Cao Ky decided to divide his trial period by ten. In his supersonic first week, Fighter Pilot Ky (rhymes with wheel) got more done than any other Vietnamese leader has accomplished in the 20 months since Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. In rapid succession, the Saigon government...
...whole country seemed to be running! Thousands and tens of thousands of wild horses running in immense herds as far as the eye or telescope could sweep the horizon. Time and again immense masses of mustangs, circling and circling around us, charging and threatening to rush over us, would wheel from our yelling and firing and go thundering away...
Public betting pools and slot machines are common throughout Germany as well, but the real romance is still in the wheel of fortune. Explains Carl-Alexander von der Groeben, promotion manager at Bad Neuenahr: "Somehow we are still surrounded by the ancient aura of being socially exclusive, and just a little bit illicit. You can see it in the face of the grocer's wife, who comes in and looks around to see if anyone there knows...