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Word: wheelings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer, Palmer built up his arms by wrestling tractors and mowers over the course (he had to stand up to handle the wheel); in the winter he drove balls painted bright red into the snow. At eleven he was coolly offering advice to the club champion?and having it gratefully accepted. Palmer never tired of practicing. "He'd be yelling, 'Watch me! Watch me! Watch me, Pap!'" recalls Deacon Palmer. "You'd get so sick of him you'd feel like hitting him a lick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: For Love & Money | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

JUNIOR-SIZE COMPACT with a slide-out engine for easy servicing is being developed by Ford, but, if mass produced, would not be on the market before 1962. The four-cylinder car would be smaller than a Volkswagen, with an 85-in. wheelbase and front-wheel drive, would sell for less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...Britain's Triumph Herald, a crisply designed convertible that delivers up to 40 miles a gallon, cruises at 65 m.p.h., costs $2,229. Another British entry is the ingeniously designed, diminutive (wheelbase: 80 in.) Morris 850, which has a laterally mounted engine, front-wheel drive, and seats four adults. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Impact of the Compacts | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...France's Citröen Prestige, a luxurious version of Citröen's front-wheel-drive sedan. Intended to be chauffeur-driven, the Prestige has a dividing window, intercom system, deep-pile carpeting and rubbed-walnut trim, sells for $3,940. Another new Citröen: the eight-seater station wagon, which sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Impact of the Compacts | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Spokesmen. In Hartford, Conn.., when two of the wheels fell off a prisoner-filled paddy wagon, cops chased one wheel as it rolled down a hill, then, looked helplessly back uphill while two men picked up the other wheel, put it into their car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

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