Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bathing suit and a bright blue cap, she swam and water-skied in the Aegean Sea, while units of the Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine at the wheel. On her return to Washington, she found her husband waiting for her, sitting in the back seat of his Cadillac. The tanned and radiant First Lady raced through the official welcome-home ceremonies to the waiting car, jumped nimbly over her husband's outstretched legs, and planted an affectionate...
...swam at the villa, units of the Greek navy patrolled the sea. a mile offshore, waving off intruders. When chartered yachts, full of newsmen, came too close, an excitable officer aboard a navy launch waved and shouted, "Not stop here! Not stop here! Mrs. Kennedy!" The helmsman left his wheel to join the shouting, and the launch crashed grandly into one of the press yachts for emphasis...
...from the propeller-driven days of Jimmy Doolittle, Jackie Cochran, reciprocating engines, wheel pants and struts. Civilians no longer could afford to compete, and according to present procedure, only one service was invited. But early one day last week, five Navy F4H-1 Phantom II jets roared down the runway at Los Angeles International Airport and raced eastward. Their goals: Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a new transcontinental speed record, and the Bendix Trophy-one of the most coveted awards in U.S. aviation...
When Cayley wrote those prophetic words, the only "first movers" available were monstrously heavy steam engines. He saw little chance of making them light enough for flight, and he tried unsuccessfully to build a light, powerful engine that worked by expanding air. He also invented the tension-spoke wheel, the principle of which is still used in bicycles, a surprisingly modern-looking caterpillar tread for large land vehicles, an artificial hand, and an automatic railroad brake. But although he lived to be 83, he never crowned his career by building an airplane that actually flew...
...series begins with a majestic parade and then a savage combat scene wreathed in smoke. But the horror is in the aftermath. Churches go up in flames, men are set on fire in their castles, tiny firing squads claim victim after victim, a man is broken on a wheel, 21 corpses hang from a single tree. Callot's etchings are too small to roar with rage, but all the brutality is there, etched in acid fury...