Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history: a ceremonial office in which a man stands by to take office in case the President dies. John Adams, first Vice President of the U.S., called it "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Theodore Roosevelt considered it "a fifth wheel to the coach." Harry Truman said it was "useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that...
...made it to the U.S. embassy compound next door. In the graveled courtyard, Olympio found a parked Plymouth sedan belonging to the embassy, and crawled in. There, in the early morning sunlight, he was spotted huddled beneath the steering wheel by one of the mutineers. Crying "All right, you have me!", Olympio surrendered and, prodded by rifle butts, was hustled down the driveway, past a mango tree and through the green gate. There he balked. Sergeant Etienne Eyadema, commander of the rebel detachment, later declared: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move...
...England house, Author Eric Sloane found a wood-backed, leather-bound diary written in 1805 by a 15-year-old boy. Its entries were terse: "June 3-Helped Father build rope hoist to move the water wheel." or "June 26-Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm...
...More. The mill wheel was the all-purpose appliance that could run saws, pump bellows, grind grain, keep trip hammers thumping, turn meat spits and rock babies, all at once. Woods were selected according to capability, and when a wagon was built-oak frame, elm sides and floor, ash spokes and shafts, pine seat, hickory slats-it lasted about twelve times as long as a Cadillac...
...show. It is the Spitfire, a racy two-seater sports car which is a little brother of the TR-4, last year's bestselling imported sports car in the U.S. Priced at $2,199 in the Eastern U.S., the Spitfire has roll-up windows, road-clinging independent four-wheel suspension, and speeds up to 92 m.p.h. on a 63-h.p. engine. If anything can accelerate Standard-Triumph's progress, the Spitfire ought...