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f lawr bawrd

  • n  a board in the floor
  • n  the floor of an automobile

  • Think of Otto (Kevin Kline) as Daffy Duck, a fellow whose foot -- when it's not in his mouth -- is always obsessively pressed to the emotional floorboard.
  • It was back in 1993 that they discovered the first crumbling floorboard in their house in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.
  • My father would drive, with me, a toddler, standing on the floorboard in front of him and my mother seated pillion, cradling my infant sister in her arms.
News & Articles

  • Dropped soda can blamed for Kennewick semi crash
    KENNEWICK, Wash. - The Washington State Patrol says a dropped can of soda is to blame for a crash that injured two semi-truck drivers south of Kennewick. The Tri-City Herald reports (http://is.gd/dci5Z5 ) that 42-year-old James Gill, of Kennewick, was driving his 2010 Freightliner on Friday afternoon when he dropped the can on the floorboard and reached down to pick it up. The truck struck a ...
    June 16, 2013 - KING5 Seattle
  • Dropped soda can blamed for Wash. semi crash
    KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Patrol says a dropped can of soda is to blame for a crash that injured two semi-truck drivers south of Kennewick. The Tri-City Herald reports (http://is.gd/dci5Z5 ) that 42-year-old James Gill, of Kennewick, was driving his 2010 Freightliner on Friday afternoon when he dropped the can on the floorboard and reached down to pick it up. The truck ...
    June 15, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
Quotes

  • Bobby Allison in PaddockTalk
    The heat was the primary deal,Allison said. "The crew really had to work hard on insulating the floor of the car because here you are on the steering wheel but your feet might be burning because your feet are touching the floorboard. I did...
  • Clarence Thomas in New York Times
    Further scrutiny uncovered a secret compartment under the rear floorboard, and inside the compartment the officers found approximately $81,000 in cash,Justice Thomas wrote. "The money was bundled in plastic bags and duct tape, and animal...
  • Fireball Roberts in Nascar
    It was the hardest race I've ever been in, from the standpoint of speed,Roberts said. "There were precious few laps I didn't have my foot flat on the floorboard. If Junior Johnson had stayed in, he undoubtedly would have been up with...

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