Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four of its cars, Chrysler had increased headroom, seat width and wheel-bases, while lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...
...Minnesota campus was full of New Deal-talk. Humphrey plunged enthusiastically into the midst of it. He gulped down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic. A professor once told him: "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero...
...wheel in this novel civilization is a slinky siren named Antinea (Maria Montez). When a couple of the Foreign Legion boys (Jean Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe) blunder into her boudoir cooking for a missing French archeologist (he shows up eventually, tidily gold-leafed in the Visitors' Gallery), she plays them off against each other. Then she plays both off against the old embalming fluid...
Double Trouble. In Leeds, England, Mrs. Doris Leake frantically told doctors that a toy wheel had been swallowed by one of her 18-month-old twins - she didn't know which...
...admiration for Mrs. Marie Baker, who for 18 years had cooked, washed and ironed clothes, and raised a family of four while confined to a wheel chair by infantile paralysis, her Harrisonville, Mo. neighbors chipped in, bought her a new electrically operated wheel chair at a cost...