Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hill in Jackson, Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...
...halt at the Italian customs booth in Ventimiglia on the French frontier. The uniformed chauffeur airily pronounced the ritual phrase "Niente da dichiarare" (Nothing to declare). The passenger in the back seat was Carlo Aloisi, 60, one of Italy's leading bankers and businessmen. Normally, the driver would have been taken at his word and waved on. This time, though, the customs guard made a rare, fortuitous spot check. Digging deep into Aloisi's elegant black briefcase, the guard discovered contraband promissory notes and commercial paper valued at $3.1 million. Under the provisions of Italy's stiff...
...celebration around a motel bar. "It was a fantastic event," said Richard Pelley, a neighbor who provided homemade wine for the service. "She's worked like hell to get here under some of the worst conditions." Remarked the new priest's husband Delton, "Being a truck driver I've been associated with women drivers before, so it's not really so new." Then he added: "I'm tickled pink...
Fred Smith (190 lbs.) was called for stalling twice in the first of those two crucial bouts on the way to a 6-5 loss that apparently put the Terriers in the driver's seat...
Learning Process. Dayton, a devout Mormon, studied radio and television at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, later wound up as a cab driver and part-time film technician in Los Angeles before deciding that the only way he could break into the business in a big way would be to become a film maker himself. He now drives a brown Cadillac Seville (license: GRATED) and is working on a deal to merge with a California book publisher. Why? Says he: "It looks to us like a synergistic merger. That's a word I just learned. It means...