Word: gearshift
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...quote: "The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral." Also: In 1929 the nation's economy "was revealed to be merely a paper tiger with feet of clay living in a straw house of cards that had cried 'wolf' once too often...
...voice became very conspiratorial. "You want to know the truth?" I nodded, then realized he couldn't see me. "Well, I'll tell you. I don't care if you want a gearshift or an antimissile system. Once you've tried our new jet fighter, you won't want anything else. And if you agree to test fly it, you'll be eligible for a free trip to Bermuda...
...just want one part. The gearshift knob fell of my tank...
...careened down a 20 foot embankment that separates the road from the river. However police found the ignition off and the gearshift in park...
...youthful President headed back toward Managua, he stopped at a roadside restaurant, where he stripped down to a black T shirt and ate a lunch of rice, tortillas, chicken, steak and beer. Afterward he climbed behind the wheel of his Toyota, with a radiotelephone next to the gearshift and a rifle under the seat, and settled in for the drive back to the capital city. For the next 90 minutes, Ortega, occasionally taking his hands from the wheel to make a point, gave an unusually informal interview to TIME...