Word: tractorized
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Bernardo ("The Tractor") Provenzano (a boss from Corleone...
...entrance is located in the middle of a long, narrow valley between two mountain peaks. A two-lane road wide enough to accommodate two tractor-trailer trucks side by side runs into the entrance. But less than a hundred feet inside, the two lanes split around a giant rock wall. The lanes rejoin on the other side into a huge chamber for the factory. Other chambers that connect to the main one are being dug. The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command, which oversees Delta Force and seal Team-6, studied the Tarhunah layout and concluded that a commando raid...
...started out with a frank explanation of why he was going to remain seated for the duration of the show. A few months ago, Diddley slipped a disc one morning getting ready to ride his tractor: "I put on my pants, went to the toilet, came back to the bed, reached for my socks and ended up in the hospital." Rehabilitated enough to get back on the road, Mr. Diddley was under doctor's orders to keep his leg wiggling to a minimum...
...professors probably should be discouraged from screaming at students or presenting their loopier notions as historical fact. But it's hard to see how a Green Bay Packers T shirt could interfere with the stocking of Pop-Tarts or how a union sticker would slow the tightening of a tractor's axle. When employers are free to make arbitrary and humiliating restrictions, we're saying democracy ends, and dictatorship begins, at the factory gate...
...Sisyphean shoveling. Bill Clinton called the storm a "national disaster" and promised federal relief. In the New York region alone, an estimated $1 billion was lost to interrupted business and cleanup costs.Every region got more than it was prepared for. An inch of icy snow sufficed in Atlanta, where tractor-trailers skidded across highway lanes and the indoor Peachtree Center shopping area became deserted...