Word: carting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane went down, and everything went up--dishes and everything. The cart with the food went to the ceiling," said Kchaginas...
...Golf carts were conceived as simple, functional machines that would ferry players around courses that often stretched for three or four sinuous miles. Now, however, more and more linksters prefer to ride in style. Japan's Yamaha, which is becoming the deluxe class of fairway transport, has just introduced the fanciest, priciest cart ever to cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires...
...Classic is geared to travel at 13 m.p.h. but can be souped up to hit 30. Jim Hakeman, 66, of Sun City West, uses his new Sun Classic for shopping expeditions and visits to friends' condominiums. Says he: "It's a beautiful machine. It's the first golf cart that doesn't look like one." It is fast becoming an object of envy. Says Larry Koch, 52, who lives near the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, Calif.: "The Sun Classic is very stylish. A dozen guys have already bought one after seeing mine...
Then one winter afternoon, Toad came upon the marvel that changed his life forever. Toad found the word processor. It was to his Selectric as a Ferrari to a gypsy's cart. Toad now thought that his old writing machines were clattering relics of the Industrial Revolution...
...when he becomes a bicycle messenger for Quicksilver (hence the title of the movie). There, he meets up with aspiring capitalist Hector Rodriguez (Paul Rodriguez), a happy-go-lucky Mexican who's biding his time at Quicksilver's until he has saved enough money to purchase a hot-dog cart and work his way up the ladder of success...