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Word: haulers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle may serve some auxiliary role in the space program, but the thrust of the program should be to further scientific knowledge of space. Even sending astronauts beyond earth orbit would be a welcome break from the cargo-hauler routine of the shuttle, for it would at least appeal to the imaginatior of the average person. Clearly, however the greatest scientific returns come from increased use of spacecraft. Although the shuttle is back in service, the United States still lacks a successful space program...

Author: By Kevin D. Katari, | Title: A Giant Step For Science | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...malleability of young bones. A middle-aged Texan named Dennis Jerkins broke his hand, however. The hand was already in a cast. "The way I broke it the first time," said Jerkins, "was my executive privilege to bang it against my desk. I'm a grain and sod-grass hauler. The way I broke it the second time was I was trying to get out of the way of a fistfight this morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Environmental Protection Agency workers began testing along the roadsides of this town about 25 miles southwest of St Lours this week after learning that Russell Bliss, an Ellosville waste hauler, was hured in 1972 73 to spray city streets with oil to control dust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadly Dirt | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

...bearded long-distance hauler was described by neighbors as softspoken, reserved and devoted to his wife Sonia, a sometime teacher of handicrafts. His boss called him a "very sensitive man, and if anybody said anything sharp to him, his eyes would fill with tears." For much of the British public, however, there was little doubt that the police had finally caught their man. Outside the magistrate's court in industrial Dewsbury where Sutcliffe was charged, a mob of 1,000 hurled obscenities and shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Hang Him! | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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