Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather of anti-alcohol legislation is Scandinavia, which has reined in schnapps-happy drivers for years-with mixed results. Swedes are taught from the cradle up that booze and an auto do not mix, yet one in five drivers still risks arrest by taking the wheel after drinking. About 7,000 a year go for one to twelve months to special prisons, including one outside Stockholm that is known as "the country club" because of the high social caliber of its inmates. In Denmark, where the number of arrests of drunken drivers has been increasing sharply, police are introducing breath...
...manufacture of firearms was an exacting, highly skilled craft, and most great gunmakers were often jewelers or watchmakers, even scientists. It was a French goldsmith who invented one of the first true flintlocks; and although he was never a professional gunmaker, Leonardo da Vinci designed one of the first wheel locks. The makers of the best firearms took tremendous pride in their craft, signed their names to weapons along with dates, proverbs and poetry, and passed on their skills from father to son, sometimes over centuries...
...pistols, a rifle and bird gun. Weapons that took only a few weeks to manufacture were subjected to months, often years, of or namentation, with several craftsmen combining their skills. Two Munich gunmakers, for example, used bone, ivory, chiseled steel and beaten gold to decorate a combined wheel lock and matchlock for Maximilian of Bavaria around 1600, with baroque swirls and scores of delicately detailed figures from classical mythology...
...last-ditch weapon in case we are overrun." Not far away stands a siren that is no joke. Should the base ever be overrun, it will scream a signal to everyone to burrow deep down inside their bunkers. Then all the other U.S. artillery bases within range will wheel their guns around to fire on Gio Linh itself in an attempt to blast the North Vietnamese right off the backs of the defenders...
Vassar Vulgarity. Dr. Hartogs had to suffer another traumatic experience before he could explain all about the mechanic, the wheel and the word. The impetus was the 1959 federal court decision that D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene. Later that week, at a "fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar...