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Word: wheeling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steering wheel is gone, the body has huge dents patched over with hasty repair jobs, and no one knows how much gas remains in the tank...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Demolition Derby | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Saturday's 28-12 collision with Dartmouth wrecked the steering wheel. No longer does the Crimson (now 1-1-1 in the league) have control over its Ivy destination. Two teams must blindside the Big Green to knock Dartmouth off the road to the league championship...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Demolition Derby | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...roads free of intoxicated motorists. "We don't want to put people in jail," Ducks said. "We're not saying that after a game you can't get a beer, we're not returning to Calvinist ideals. But when you have a beer, don't get behind the wheel...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: A Broken Promise | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

...saying that after a game you can't get a beer," Dukakis told the crowd in the State House's Gardiner Auditorium, adding, "but if you have a beer don't get behind the wheel of a car." The governor added that his brother was killed by a hit-and-run driver...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Dukakis Fights Drunk Driving; Will Set Up Local Roadblocks | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

...responsibility system" in Sichuan has demonstrated that peasants work best when they tend their own fields. For Westerners this recognition seems equivalent to the rediscovery of the wheel. But with a crucial difference. The state, via the commune, has replaced the old landlord. It owns the fields; the peasant rents an allotted share of land; if he meets the state's quota (once called the landlord's rent), he keeps the rest. This is progress. It is harsh; yet the Great Cultural Revolution was far more cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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