Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During some moments, however, the crowd seemed responsive and started to dance and sing along. When David Gahan sang "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence," the noise from the crowd was audible--not loud but definitely audible. Also Depeche Mode's rendition of "Behind the Wheel" and "Stripped" were definitely the highlights in a dull concert...
...that looks rather like Clement Attlee? I paid only 10 shillings for that one -- worth fully two pounds now, I dare say.' " Alsop was reminded of his visit to Chartwell when he toured the L.B.J. Ranch at high speed in a limousine with Johnson himself at the wheel. Reaching a group of cattle, Johnson would "behave precisely like Churchill with his goldfish -- pointing out each animal in turn, occasionally comparing its appearance to that of some fellow politician and telling his visitors just what he had paid for it and precisely what staggering profit he expected to realize...
Woodruff, ostensibly a regional-affairs officer assigned to the new Tbilisi embassy but actually the CIA's acting station chief, spent Sunday afternoon on a sight-seeing trip to the village of Kasbegi. He was riding home in a white, four-wheel-drive Niva jeep driven by Eldar Gogoladze, who heads the security unit in charge of protecting top Georgian officials, when suddenly, sometime after 9:30 p.m., a single bullet pierced the brain of the 45-year-old American. Gogoladze was unharmed...
...Wills would pry a side window loose with a screwdriver, pull the glass back with his bare hands, unlock the door and slither inside. Next, he used the screwdriver to break the steering column and turn on the ignition. Popular antitheft devices like The Club, which locks a steering wheel in place, never deterred him. Most thieves spray The Club with Freon and crack it with a hammer. Wills would snip it in half with a ratchet-type tool. "He said he preferred GM cars," says agent Stott. "I think he was probably just more familiar with them...
Tucker cranks up the CD player and blasts out his theme song, Simon and Garfunkel's Keep the Customer Satisfied. With fingers tapping on the steering wheel, he belts out the lyrics ("I get slandered/ Libeled/ I hear words I never heard in the Bible"). Then he unsnaps the gun's holster. "They may kill me," he says, "but I'm going to take some of them with me." Tucker knows that someone out there may really mean business; only last winter an antiabortion extremist shot and killed David Gunn, an abortion doctor who rode the circuit just...