Word: deliveryism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco-born Pesquet, an unstable and bizarre fellow, was hardly a man whose word was to be preferred to Mitterrand's, except for one fact: nine hours before the attack, he said, he had written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to...
Highballing along behind the second bus was a trailer-tanker truck, and at the wheel was 54-year-old Roscoe Poe, who had made a delivery of linseed oil to New York and was hauling his tanker back to Philadelphia. Roscoe Poe's driving history was pock-marked with...
Birth Pangs. In Hartford, Conn., D. A. McGann sent $5 to the police for a parking ticket with an explanatory note: "It was a girl. Delivery costs $5 more than anticipated," got an answer: "Congratulations, but no refund."
In Kabul, Moscow's aid has a more pleasing and dramatic look. On Russian-paved streets, Soviet-made taxis dart in and out of the traffic of laden camels and horse-drawn carriages. Over the city looms an eleven-story mechanized silo with a bakery attached where Russian experts...
Highways South. U.S. aid ($145 million) includes construction of some 500 miles of roads from Kabul south and east to the Pakistan border; although it was not intended that way, the roads will provide the Russians with a perfect network of all-weather highways running from the Oxus to the...