Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing is very easy here at the American Truck Driving School of Texas, a boot camp for long-haul drivers. The school's aim is to take a driver who may never have driven a car with a stick shift and, in three weeks of nonstop instruction, turn the greenhorn into a licensed, road-ready trucker. That means endless hours of double-clutching around a 3.2-mile course of rutted concrete while dodging orange traffic cones and 50 other student truckers...
...with a minute remaining in the period, Ed Presz dug the puck out from behind the Clarkson net and found Tod Hartje driving across the middle. Presz put the puck on Hartje's stick, and Hartje put the puck in the back of the net for a 2-1 Crimson edge after one period...
Goalie John Devin, after making sure that the ECAC had his correct goaltending statistics this year, will have Cap Raeder wanting to leave for Los Angeles after the game. He'll grab the red-eye to southern California but the Crimson will stick around Boston to face upstart Vermont...
Mike Dukakis is the guy who treks across the country talking about honesty, integrity and responsible leadership. But it's not much more than talk. Mike Dukakis is like the tough little kid in the schoolyard who brags a lot but won't stick around to prove himself in a fight...
Everything in the show, even the virtual stick figures that march across very early pottery pieces, is enlivened by the Greeks' emerging confidence in human capabilities. But the most riveting works are inevitably the later ones. These include half a dozen examples of the free-standing marble figures called kouroi ("youths") that in the 6th century became the chief expression of the Greek belief in the human figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function...