Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Legend to the contrary, says Rowland, no statue of Buddha was made for centuries after his death because it was believed that he had passed into a realm of invisibility and could be represented only by such symbols as an empty throne for his Enlightenment or a great wheel for his first preaching. But eventually, the faithful came to hunger for something closer to the Buddha, and the great procession of images began...
...think all the scientific things came after I was nine. I remember being struck by the permanence of matter: on my fifth birthday I had a fire engine, but I lost the wheel under the cellar stairs; I found it four or five years later and actually put it back...
...more popular. Where Fanfani enjoys sharp exchanges and is quick to trade insults, Moro is reserved, anxious to avoid angry debates whenever possible, and detests name calling. Says one of his friends, admiringly, "Moro runs the party the way he drives a car. He keeps both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road, and he never drives more than 35 miles an hour...
...these charges, Hoffa faces a possible retrial of the original Nashville case, plus a separate trial in a federal court in Florida on charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with a Teamster real estate venture. Despite these legal troubles, Hoffa still retains a firm grip on the steering wheel of his huge Teamsters Union. Only two weeks ago, he won a decisive victory over insurgent Teamsters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. A National Labor Relations Board election gave Teamsters in the four-state region a choice between Hoffa's union and a rival union...
Both in and out, it was a tough commute. A Jeep steering wheel came off. The Jeep dove into a gorge and had to be repaired with Scotch tape and fishing pliers. The governments of both Argentina and Chile, deciding that this was really a smuggling expedition, sent police along to make sure that dry flies were the only things being cast across the border...