No one seems to know how knowledge of the process spread to the U.S.; however, by the late 1960s, hip fashion boutiques were buying one dollar white cotton T-shirts, tie-dying them, and selling the rainbow-hued productsfor up to six dollars apiece.

… but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train shucked off a wheel near Everett.

When the pressure of danger was not felt.

Coordinate term: soul (All Souls Day)