Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps, adding yet another load to the burden of mortal sin which will soon damn his soul for all time to the place of darkness and the gnashing of teeth...
...caravan rolls. A pair of fuel trucks, a Ryder rent-a- truck with a family in the cab and its Pontiac dragging behind, a double freight truck, half a peripatetic house marked WIDE LOAD (for shallow living) pass and pass again in symbiotic progression. They finally fetch up -- without a sign of recognition from the drivers who have traveled for hours more or less together -- in the lee of an aptly named roadside restaurant called Huddle. "Lady," snarls the gas-station owner, "don't you ever clean your headlights with a squeegee. Stuff gets in it, and the next...
...Customs officials finally managed to outwit McVey in early 1982, when he tried to smuggle a Memorex computer out of California on a private plane. When the plane stopped in Houston, Customs inspectors replaced the computer with a load of sand. The sand was duly shipped to the Institute of Space Research in Moscow. McVey's capture last summer foiled his latest scheme: a plan to steal the designs for a new supercomputer being developed by the Saxpy Computer Corp. in Silicon Valley. The computer can be used to track satellites and missiles...
...then I was at Yale Bowl. The place looked like a circus. With The Game as the event under the Big Top, there were many side shows. I saw some Harvard-Yale soccer, bumped into many friends, ate a UC-sponsored hamburger, bought a large load of peanuts and a half pint of Puerto Rican rum made by the company my great-grandfather used...
...better never miss an opportunity to bring on a highly qualified minority or woman." Black Historian David L. Lewis, recruited to Rutgers, was courted by schools in the South, Midwest and East before he quit the University of California at San Diego for a heavy salary, a light teaching load and a budget to travel in Europe and Africa...