Word: pickaback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry him pickaback upstairs...
Standard will soon show off new pickaback flatcars, the first especially designed for hauling truck trailers. Biggest improvement: re cessed wells for the trailers, making it easier to load them, and eliminating many overhead clearance problems. Railroad men think that the new cars will enable them to haul trailers for 4? a mile less than truckers can pull them over the highways. If they do, the embattled truckers and railroads may be headed for a profitable truce...
...flooded; many downtown shops closed; streetcar service was disrupted. Boys and unemployed men picked up welcome pesos transporting pedestrians across riverlike streets. Some of the ferrymen used surplus U.S. Navy life rafts or primitive boats made of packing cases; others, in hip boots or swimming trunks, carried their customers pickaback...
Such a story, riding pickaback on issues of the moment, is carried more by its contemporaneity than by any strength in the author. That strength emerges only in the last six stories in the book, six strong, quiet stories of Jewish family life in the U.S. Here, for the first time, Author Calisher seems really sure of her people and places, and what she feels about them. In the last and best of the stories, The Middle Drawer, she searches into the need of a grownup daughter to be reconciled at last to her unsympathetic mother, before the mother dies...