Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not. So he went through school one grade at a time, taking the same courses as everyone else, and enjoying them with no hint of impatience. And after the last bell, he would rush home to his basement workshop, where he kept his rockets, photographic equipment, radio rig and chemicals, where he blew up the battery, and where the sink had lost its protective coating to acidic solutions Horowitz poured down the drain. His parents left him alone, realizing that he knew more about what he was doing than they did. Once, though, they cautioned him after his brother...
...reminds her of Haitian fairy tales about trees that switched positions during the night. It occurs to her that the trucks heading for film studios laden with subway stations would appeal to the surrealists. A man in Greenwich Village called the One-Man-Band infatuates her with his unlikely rig made...
...accident-free record in that time. If a driver wins his class here, he and his family will be sent by his company to the National Truck Roadeo in Minneapolis this fall. Massachusetts's only national champion, Mel Thompson, is out this year because he smashed up his rig several months...
...truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about the same as a man in a wheelchair getting a football through the Miami Dolphins' defense...
...began driving trucks when he was 18 years old, picking up milk for a wholesale company. When he was 20, he bought his own tractor-trailer rig. Over the next few years, he hauled various commodities, including produce, furniture and comic books, to various parts of the country. He joined and left the International Brotherhood of Teamsters twice during that time...