Word: pickup
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...last seen in public before his arrest by U.S. forces. A large crowd of Iraqis mills outside it. Private First Class Jim Beverly, 19, and Private Orion Jenks, 22, stand in the bed of the convoy's second vehicle, a roofless high-back humvee, which resembles a large pickup truck and is generally used to transport troops. Also riding in the back are two TIME journalists. As the convoy begins moving again, Jenks and Beverly chat casually and laugh. Sergeant Ronald Buxton, who is riding shotgun in the cab of the high-back, whips around. "I don't care...
Stacey Hoffman, 32, wasn't always a babe. Two years ago, when she drove her pickup truck into an auto-window-tinting shop owned by Kevin May in Lincoln, Neb., May, six years her senior, barely noticed her. Then an aide at a nearby nursing home and mired in a rocky, miserable relationship, Stacey weighed 180 lbs., deeply disliked the sight of her own face and didn't exactly radiate self-confidence. She didn't radiate much of anything, except perhaps a conviction that she looked 50 and would never be as happy or as attractive as Lisa, her bikini...
...first eight mins., Siodmak and Schoenfeld efficiently construct a gallows due for our rancorous architect hero, Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis). The pickup, the revue they attend, the four people who noticed them - the bartender, the cab driver, the Carmen Miranda-style star of the show and her hepped-up drummer - are sharply sketched, with lots of oblique camera angles and warning shadows. The men waiting for Scott when he arrives home don?t bother to introduce themselves; are they thugs, or unknown suitors for Mrs. H.? They are detectives of the brutish sort Woolrich often painted: the menacing fatso (Thomas...
...with his quick feet and broad shoulders excels at every position on the pitch. He dreams about going to Britain to follow his favorite players - he can reel off the names of the stars on England's national team - and maybe study economics at university. At a weekly pickup game in late 2002, a close friend of Abdi Salan's shows up on crutches. His left leg has been blown off in a mortar attack on his apartment building. Violence is nothing new to Somalis of Abdi Salan's generation. He was 11 when the civil war broke...
...didn’t do anything,” Holsey said. “I biked instead of running. I just shot, but didn’t play any pickup or anything. I kinda stayed off my knees and didn’t do that much playing...