Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elderly landlady is brutally murdered in her San Francisco apartment by an intruder. A man who may have been drunk at the wheel is killed when his truck swerves off the road and tumbles over a bridge. One character dies of AIDS, another is disabled by Alzheimer's disease, and a family watches in horror as their house goes up in flames. Typical scenes from a trouble-filled TV fall? Yes, but there is something different about this litany of prime-time woes. These are the comedies, folks...
...gleaned from the chroniclers and quantifiers of all things great and small. The result was a corps of diehards who didn't know they were interested in such micro-bytes of information as the percentage of Icelanders who believe in elves (5) or the diameter of the real-life "wheel of fortune" (8 feet, 6 inches...
This is also one of the founding beliefs of Wicca. The modern witch sees the year as a great wheel, with a cycle of eight festivals that fall on the solstices, the equinoxes, and certain points at the heights of seasons. Samhain or the Hallows is still the most important one, the New Year celebration of the pagan cycle...
Those who might have liked some wine with their Head of the Charles picnic drank soda and probably stewed in indignation. After all, anyone bound and determined to get behind the wheel of a car pickled simply drank. It's just too easy to empty a can of soda and fill it with straight vodka. Bloody Marys, daquiries, rum-and-Cokes, they all circulated--in tomato juice cans...
...Atlanta Salesman Stewart Powell, 25, describes a "miserable" 200-mile journey in his Samurai: "It's like driving a go-cart. On the highway the engine is really loud, and you feel like you're surrounded by tin." Then again, there is a downside to virtually all jeeps: four-wheel drive means lower gas mileage...