Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What'd you say, son?" asked the driver with Pennsylvania plates...
...Pennsylvania driver laughed, moved his car closer and thereby ended another skirmish in the word between the states. Along the interstates, and more often away from them, old Southern expressions like "a tad"-an indefinable little bit-survive...
Herbert Williams, an eleventh-grade dropout from Little Rock, Ark., schools, went to Chicago in 1946 to seek his fortune. Over the next 28 years, he worked as a bus dispatcher, bus driver and truck driver. But he never felt comfortable living in Chicago. He resented the discrimination that for years barred him from North Side nightclubs. He found the people unfriendly and the pace too fast. Says he: "It is a big rat race, all hustle and bustle...
...stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
...into a garden chair--without stooping to too much cynicism. But also without touching us very deeply, because Veronique never does act her real age, never even suggests that her pre-mature coolness is really a hold-out against advancing adolescent self-consciousness (a la Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, for instance, or McKenzie Phillips in American Graffiti...