Word: pickup
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Your best pickup line: Nice bum, where you from...
...Tennessee native, teaches family and child studies at Seattle Central Community College and does consulting work. They have an 11-year-old daughter at home and a 22-year-old daughter who is on her own. With a 12-year-old Mercury Sable, a three-year-old Toyota pickup truck, a mortgage on a two-bedroom home, and a trip to the movies their idea of an exciting night out, the couple is solidly Middle America...
...entirely different assignment overseas. (What language and what posting, he would not say.) The agency yanked him out to join the first U.S. team going into Afghanistan. That was typical for a CIA paramilitary officer, who at a moment's notice may be thrown into what John calls a pickup team. John's team included four CIA officers fluent in Farsi or Dari who for years had been sneaking into Afghanistan, recruiting spies for the agency. Their mission now was to hook up with those contacts, collect intelligence for the impending U.S. aerial attack and hunt for bin Laden. Along...
...flags. Officers were supervising repairs to some forts, and earth-moving equipment were being used to build trenches and protective mounds of soil. A few forts were also being supplied with water and other provisions. Small detachments of soldiers were being transported in both directions of the highway, on pickup trucks; a few armored personnel carriers and mobile artillery pieces were also on the move...
...most poignant sights I've seen here was a lone soldier - he could not have been more than 18 years old; his mandatory Iraqi moustache was barely visible - sitting in the back of a pickup truck, waving with a child's sense of glee at every passing village. When the fighting starts, that young man will need to grow up very fast...