Word: freights
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...part of Australian life since 1840?more than 50 years before Waltzing Matilda was even composed. Strings of the haughty beasts speeded up European exploration of the continent's interior, and helped open it up for ranchers. Shipped over en masse from what is now Pakistan, these dromedaries delivered freight and carried mail, and when superseded by motor vehicles, were turned loose and left to fend for themselves. Ideally suited to the rough desert conditions of Australia's interior, the hardy beasts soon bred themselves into a vast, wild population of at least 200,000?the world's largest...
...want to find the people who want their names on freight elevators,” she jokes...
Malt was the chief surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) when he and his team reattached the arm of 12-year-old Everett “Red” Knowles in 1962. Knowles severed his right arm below the shoulder while hanging on the side of a freight train as it passed a stone abutment...
...Moonlight Mile he heads a cast that includes Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter. What's more, he is playing a young man who, after his fiance's death by gunfire, is living with her grieving parents (Hoffman and Sarandon). Can he carry all that freight...
...friendship between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his German business partner after the latter returns to Germany in 1932. Author Kressmann Taylor tells the story solely through their letters, which saves a lot of space on plot, dialogue and description. Yet the letters carry considerable freight. "Back in Germany! How I envy you," enthuses Max Eisenstein to his old friend Martin Schulse in the opening missive. The warmth of the relationship is palpable as they recount their happy hours together, the minutiae of their business dealings and their increasingly divergent lives. "I am in distress...