Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ensuing flare-up, one police car had its license plates and windshield wiper taken, and three of its tires deflated. A trackless trolley attempting to get through the Square had its trolley poles removed by students; and more than 50 policemen answered calls to the Square to quell hand-to-hand fighting...
...noise I get is my head touching and getting these vibrations through the windshield...
...Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries, she had left a Manhattan hospital, counted herself "lucky to be alive...
...picked them up. Mother Lillian Rich was given up for dead. But next day a helicopter spotted her, cut and bone weary, back near the confluence, picked her up by landing in a nearby clearing. Search parties later retrieved the hull of the Rich boat, its motor, top and windshield gone. Gone, too, was Frank Rich. His son, Del, could not forgive himself. "It was my fault, my fault," he mumbled over and over, staring out at the river...
...Only passenger to escape injury: longtime (1948-57) Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, his thickset body still crippled from an auto accident a year ago (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958). Said Roy, shaken by the mishap: "If I hadn't been strapped in, I'd have gone through the windshield...