Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...county search-and- rescue mission. His steady marksmanship enabled him to bag a four-point buck, whose weathered rack sits on a fence beside his house. Around town, folks knew Thom was coming when they saw "Baby Huey," a battered green-and- rust 1972 GMC pickup. He would zoom through mud puddles in it, yelling at friends, "Just like a Jeep commercial...
...after striking out last spring, Harvard connected for a grand slam last Thursday when Duke's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., accepted a lifetime post at the University. This was no two-bit pickup--Gates is widely considered the top Afro-Am scholar the nation has to offer. If anyone can breathe new life into the dwindling department, Gates...
...these kids living in a rustic time warp? Yes. Not far away from the Pine Grove schoolhouse sit two wooden outhouses and the old pickup Cal Phipps drives to school. He is only 13, but there is no school-bus service. Jordan -- nearby by Montana standards -- is the seat of Garfield County, 4,500 sq. mi., where the cattle outnumber the 1,600 humans and the flatlands are ribboned with cliffs called the Missouri Breaks. No one from Pine Grove in recent memory has ventured so far as Chicago for college, and Los Angeles might as well be Pluto...
...with blond hair, Chase does not seem the type to win a Legion of Merit from Ms. magazine. "On weekends he's wearing his cowboy hat and driving his pickup," says Betsy's brother John, who is their next-door neighbor in Clear Lake, just south of Houston's city limits. "You'd equate that kind of Texan with a male chauvinist." Wrong. Watson describes her husband as "extremely self-confident and self-assured. And my success does not jeopardize his own masculinity or feelings of worth." But that power balance shifts the moment they walk through the front door...
...they were introduced in 1985, Letterman's nightly Top 10 lists have been his show's most reliable laugh getters, a shrewd mix of topical satire and frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions at Disney World (Oprah...