Word: trailered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lerner explains about RTH's decision to accept Harvard's offer, "if I wanted to have someone drive my car to New York City, and a guy says he is going down to New York and he would be willing to take my car but only by flat-bed trailer, I'll take it, because otherwise my car doesn't get to New York, at all." Lerner says, "Harvard doesn't give away ice in the winter," but the University has taken certain risks that it didn't have to take simply to make sure that the housing project gets...
...headlines (HOW YOUR SWEAT FINANCES CROOKS' CADILLACS) and explosive stories, but truckers have also been attracted by the offer of free collect calls for legal advice, tips on taxes-and cheesecake. The independents also came to respect Parkhurst for his crusades to get clean truck stops and uniform trailer lengths, and for his no-nonsense technical reports on new trucks...
Another observer, spotting a bus-trailer combine on a dusty back road in India, ? guessed that it must be a fancy transport for carrier pigeons. Equally baffled reactions greet Rotels wherever they turn up, from Tehran to Tierra del Fuego. Rotels? It is short for "rolling hotels," which may be the ultimate in no frill, if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Kenya world travel...
...mechanic-cook and a tour guide. By day the group rides conventionally in the bus, with the usual hurried stops for sightseeing and picture taking. In the evening the juggernaut pulls into a camping ground or stops at a village fountain, and the action shifts to the 40-ft. trailer hitched to the rear. It becomes an outdoor kitchen, dining area, dressing room and dormitory. After supper the tourists repair to the sleeping quarters: a morguelike arrangement of 3-ft-wide bunks stacked three high and 13 across, each with a single window for ventilation...
...obviously under instructions to keep out of sight during the Americans' visit. One Russian at what was apparently a radio tower hid his head in a towel when he spotted an American staring at him. One of the Senator's aides opened the door of a housing trailer and found six startled Russians inside. More to the point, a gray crate that bore Cyrillic letters was identified by a Russian-speaking U.S. technician as "having to do with a missile operation...