Word: greenhorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nikola, his father's biggest failing was not getting his family to the U.S. in time to save Eleni. The resentment colors Gage's transformation from a greenhorn with an unpronounceable name to an American success story bylined Nicholas Gage. Only when the author has his own family does he come to understand the difference between a mother's love and a father...
Nothing is very easy here at the American Truck Driving School of Texas, a boot camp for long-haul drivers. The school's aim is to take a driver who may never have driven a car with a stick shift and, in three weeks of nonstop instruction, turn the greenhorn into a licensed, road-ready trucker. That means endless hours of double-clutching around a 3.2-mile course of rutted concrete while dodging orange traffic cones and 50 other student truckers...
...back-page headline blares: BANKER'S LOVE NEST. What is wrong with this picture? The paper, of course: the last page of a tabloid always reports sports; it is the front page that broadcasts scandal. This quirky distortion of actuality echoes the work within. Ilka Weissnix is a Viennese greenhorn entering post-World War II America with a few sentences of English, an open face and beautiful legs. She soon encounters Carter Bayoux, a < doomed journalist with several distinguishing characteristics: he is overweight, brilliant, alcoholic and black...
Yoost like the greenhorn deer hunters in the voods-when they get the lost-they get the panic. They start to run when they get this panic-but in the voods they make a big circle. After they run this big circle three or four times, they fall on the ground, because they are so tried with their tongue hanging out one foot. Then they remember they have the compass and map in their pockits. When they look at map and use compass, they come to their car, only two blocks away. Bet Mike forgot the map and compass...
...sure hand and the total recall may make readers wonder if Singer was ever a greenhorn. That he is a wizard, there can be no doubt...