Word: piggybacker
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Children searched among the debris looking for parents, parents for children. At the Bach Mai hospital, patients were trundled piggyback from the smoldering rubble as the director ran frantically from one victim to another. The Bach Thai hospital for tuberculous patients was razed. The railroad station had been destroyed, the Gia Lam airport runways pocked. Stacks of coffins lay at street corners. Here and there on a wall, someone scrawled, "Nixon, you will pay this blood debt" and "We will avenge our compatriots massacred by the Americans...
...will not be easy for NASA and its major contractors to meet the tentative target date (1978) for the first flight. There is considerable opposition in Congress to expensive new space ventures, and there are also formidable engineering problems. Initially, NASA hoped to build a piggyback shuttle system in which both the passenger vehicle and launching rocket could be piloted back to earth (TIME, June 22, 1970). But combining the characteristics of a rocket ship and a jet plane in both craft would be extremely costly. Now NASA will probably settle for a less sophisticated design...
...Senate Finance Committee. Its chairman, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, finally moved last week to strip the bill of all except the Social Security provisions-against the will of leaders of both parties. The Administration wanted all three programs and figured that Social Security was must legislation that would piggyback the other two into law. Democratic leaders, opposed to the trade quotas but willing to accept welfare reform, still hoped to work out a deal with the White House: if the President would forget about trade, they would push welfare. There was no response from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Exhausted...
...machinery to taking the family to church on Sunday. Americans are still piling into the small trucks, but now their destinations are likely to be the beaches, mountains or woods. And their trucks have many of the comforts of home -beds, toilet and kitchen facilities, all tucked into a piggyback camper behind the cab. Last week, as the camping season began in earnest, a record number of those recreational trucks took to the roads...
...line with the sporty Ranchero, while Chevrolet counters with the El Camino. A long list of options includes air conditioning, power steering, automatic transmission, wooden steering wheels, bucket seats and high-performance engines. The price of a dolled-up pickup can approach $5,000, and the cost of the piggyback camping unit that slides into the truck bed can add another...