Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ROBERT ADERHOLT Republican--Alabama 4th Replacing 15-term Democrat Tom Bevill, who is retiring, 31-year-old conservative Aderholt gave the G.O.P. a "pickup" victory...
ADAM SMITH Democrat--Washington 9th A moderate candidate in a centrist district, Smith was the third Democratic pickup in Washington this fall. He did it by painting incumbent Randy Tate as a Gingrich crony...
Forty young Lakota warriors stand in prayer at the edge of a South Dakota pasture. They bless themselves with sage smoke and thank the spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later...
...your coverage of the Atlanta Olympics, you failed to mention the in-your-face commercialism that abounded there (heck, the Olympic torch was burning out of a stylized McDonald's French fries carton). The opening ceremonies with pickup trucks and a good-ole-boy theme and the U.S.'s win-at-any-cost attitude all combined to make what was supposed to be the Centennial Olympics a joke. LUIGI PALAZZINI St. Leonard, Canada...
...segment called Welcome to the World was the next big number, and it too had everything: 30 pickup trucks; 300 members of a marching band; an assortment of 374 cloggers, steppers and precision dancers; 500 cheerleaders and 83,000 audience participants, including the members of the First Family, who did the wave as per rehearsal instructions. The chrome-plated trucks, which provided lighting around the field, were the most controversial part of the program because 1) they were Chevy trucks, and commercialism is taboo during the ceremonies; and 2) they supposedly fostered the redneck stereotype of the South...