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Word of mouth soon drew a "steady trickle" of readers, some riding high in the saddle, others in pickup trucks. She wrote to publishers, small presses, obscure literati specializing in the Southwest and the American Indian. Gradually she built a collection of more than 10,000 volumes, a repository that scholars, authors, regional libraries and Old West freaks came to rely on. Nowadays the shop has even become a stop on the tour-bus routes out of Tucson. Her customers aren't the sort whose taste runs to Zane Grey -- no, they are more likely looking to flesh...
Steve was instrumental in preventing a woman from using the mailbox after last call. He told her that the last pickup had been made and she should use the post office if she hoped to get her letter out before the weekend. She too thanked us and remarked on how helpful we were...
...venture out into the Afrikaners' rural platteland in the Transvaal or the Orange Free State, and apartheid looks alive and well. The Afrikaner driving his bakkie (pickup) rides alone in the front seat, while his black laborers squat in the back. Outside, some blacks sit eating bread and drinking milk they have bought from the nearby corner store, which has a counter for natives only. There is no obvious hostility here, just a sense that this is how things are, and always will be. As the Lord made them...
...armaments were a bonanza for Chadian forces, which routed the enemy by attacking aboard Toyota pickup trucks mounted with light machine guns. Among the haul were more than 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers, countless rounds of ammunition and two giant early-warning radar systems. Western intelligence experts were delighted by the capture of three batteries of Soviet-made SA-6 surface-to-air missiles complete with radar guidance systems...
...Northern Illinois University, white students in a pickup truck yelled slurs at blacks attending a speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; an unauthorized N.I.U. student magazine printed sick poetry ("O.K.,/ Look nigger,/ We are white./ White is supreme./ Jesus was white./ God is white./ All of our Presidents have been white./ Thank you God"); and swastika-decorated flyers saying NIGGERS GET OUT appeared in campus buses...