Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy's trailers were laden with explosive isobutane, as he barreled along on Franklin Canyon Highway one day last week. On a curve outside Pinole, Calif., he swung around a car. Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...
...advantage, Herndon says, is the time saved. For a neurotic schoolteacher, he did 42 fillings in three hours. A Washington business woman, who was just in a hurry, had ten teeth filled and five pulled during one appointment. The day may come eventually, thinks Dentist Herndon, when all dentistry will be done on unconscious patients...
Washburn's wife, who also made the trip, became the first woman over to make the top of Mt. McKinley and is supposed to have climbed higher than any other woman in the world...
...hasn't changed my routine of living and it isn't going to. I've had a car and a good life before." Then, settling down to counting her winnings, Mrs. Hubert decided to keep: a $1,000 U.S. savings bond; a man's and woman's wardrobe, each valued at $1,500; a year's supply of candy, flowers, shaving lotion and cologne; free haircuts for five years; a $1,200 living room suite; a $1,000 radio-phonograph-television set; two complete fishing outfits; enough paint to redo her eight-room...
...Taylor has lived a quiet life in provincial England. As a schoolgirl in Reading, she wrote surreptitious romances when she was supposed to be studying; she worked as a governess, later as a librarian, then she married and had two children. She is now a fair, grey-eyed young woman (36) who lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and, thinking that to be adventure enough, hopes never to have any others. She is a born writer and a good...