Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though snow, sleet and fog shrouded the runway, the Grumman Gulfstream private jet ignored instructions to stay aloft and proceeded to land. Aboard was too heavy a load of dreams and ambitions to be put off by the elements. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had arrived hi Grand Forks, N. Dak. After two appearances, the Governor, with half a dozen Republican notables in tow, flew on to Minot, N. Dak. Addressing the guests at a $100-a-plate dinner, the first ever held by local Republicans, Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure...
Highballing down a turnpike in his own $30,000 rig, the open countryside flashing by, the air conditioning and stereo on, old buddies to meet at the next truck stop, a good load in back and the promise of maybe $20,000 in profit at the end of the year-a man could do worse. But times now are anything but flush, and the truckers have suddenly turned into the angriest and most disruptive group of protesters in the nation...
Summers, the castanas and other barrels are left out to catch the rain and the burros dot the countryside only once or twice a month when the rain fails to come. Then the man of the house guides them in case they fall under the weight of their load as they come up the steep incline, slippery from a season's wetness...
...work hard on the road that they completed just over a year ago. Paid by the government, they are digging ditches alongside it to drain off the daily load of water that would quickly ruin it. Before, their only means of transportation was the unscheduled train. And, for many youths, this, or work on the railroad or in a factory in Mexico City, are the only alternatives to working the plots of land, which are not large enough to be subdivided among the many children...
...Talk about getting duped," Rainie said last night. "They even helped the guys load the drum. I just can't believe...