Word: pickup
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...hour after sunset on that Saturday, Lees and 28-year-old Peter Falconio, six months into the Australian leg of their round-the-world holiday, were cruising in their orange Volkswagen campervan?Falconio at the wheel?when a white four-wheel-drive pickup drew alongside. The driver gestured that he could see sparks coming from the exhaust of the campervan and, after some discussion about whether to heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees...
Pete Dube, who is from Buffalo, Wyo., pulls up in a pickup hauling a trailer with six horses and looks out across his land. In 1995, when he bought the 5,000-acre ranch in the Middle Prong Valley of the Powder River basin, nothing much disturbed the landscape except the deer, the pronghorn and the few cows that grazed the rolling hills and valleys...
...Guillermo, it was late afternoon on May 23 at their suburban home in the chaparral-covered hills of Corona, California. Kids were shooting hoops in the fading light, and Sobero, in khaki shorts and a T shirt, was out in the driveway, slinging a yellow backpack into his Toyota pickup. Fanny thought her husband was heading up to Lake Havasu in Arizona to do some fishing and celebrate his 40th birthday, but she wasn't sure. She and Sobero didn't speak to each other much, unless it was about their impending divorce...
...miles west of Milwaukee. Encouraged by his mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His acquisitive intelligence led him into all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer and a musician,' he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch...
This morning, truck No. 11 in line to the U.S. belongs to Martin Castano. His dented Chevy pickup, loaded with pinatas shaped like Betty Boop and Winnie the Pooh, is dwarfed next to a semi carrying 15 tons of yellow bulldozer claws. Castano usually makes the trip twice a day and can pocket $150 each time. But because it would be easy to stuff marijuana inside Betty or Winnie, he is always waved over for inspection. Castano says he trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week...