Word: wiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show: he averaged 95.6 m.p.h. to win the Lightweight race, came back two days later to win the Junior race as well-averaging 94.9 m.p.h. despite pelting rain and fog. "At one stage," said Redman, "I was hanging on with one hand, using the other like a windshield wiper on my goggles...
When I bought my '55 car (one of the Big Three), resplendent in chromium and sea-mist green, I covered the shiny part of the steering wheel with masking tape and painted the wiper arms flat black. A friend told me how to use wet sandpaper to eliminate the glare from the hood over the instrument panel...
...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
Hiss: tires or windshield wiper...
...ingenious, 10-Ib. heart-lung machine, invented by Dr. Sam I. Lerman. a Detroit general practitioner. Powered by a windshield wiper motor, Dr. Lerman's homemade machine-like complicated, bulky hospital models that weigh 75 Ibs. or more, cost from $4,000 to $40,000-is designed to take over the functions of the heart and lungs during heart surgery, oxygenate the blood and maintain constant circulation. It has been tested successfully on dogs. The machine runs on oxygen pressure, uses no electricity, and could be manufactured to sell...