Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There were six or eight people with their faces uncovered...but nobody recognized them," said one relative. "They took out their guns and took him aboard a pickup truck to an unknown place...
Debate team is so high school. Someone always gets a bloody lip in intramural ultimate frisbee. The president of the Bach Society refuses to experiment with Jamiroquai. But an eternity of classes, WB teen dramas and pickup ball at the MAC is hardly a satisfying stand-in for a non-existent love life. Steer clear of the Zolaf scene, and head for the extracurriculars. But this semester, venture beyond the mainstream and mundane...
...title, a sly gibe at John Updike, Rabbit at Rest and all the other Rabbits, is worth a smile. Here, McMurtry's Duane Moore, 62, rich, beset by family and bored to a frazzle, flummoxes his Texas town by ditching his pickup truck and walking everywhere. The book is within cat-kicking distance of funny. Real guys don't walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist...
...rickety bus rattled up the road, halted at the edge of the forest and disgorged 28 passengers--all of them old women. Then came a pickup truck carrying their weapons--not clubs or rifles but gardening tools and watering cans. Finally a small car pulled up, and out strode their leader, Wangari Maathai, an imposing 5-ft. 8-in. woman in a long blue dress and a red-and-black polka-dot head scarf. She picked up a pot containing a 2-ft. Meru oak seedling, but the police refused to let her carry it into the forest...
...press. In fact, hardly anyone had ever heard of him when, in 1985, Forbes magazine determined that his 39% ownership of Wal-Mart's stock made him the richest man in America. After that, the first wave of attention focused on Walton as populist retailer: his preference for pickup trucks over limos and for the company of bird dogs over that of investment bankers. His extraordinary charisma had motivated hundreds of thousands of employees to believe in what Wal-Mart could accomplish, and many of them had ridden the company's stock to wealth. It was the American Dream...