Word: trailered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were, of course, a few dropouts, but most victims of blisters, cramps, aches and fatigue were back on the road after a few hours in a trailer called the Sag Wagon. Not so fortunate was Pat Doyle, 20, a truck driver from Dubuque, who vowed at the start to "drink a beer at every saloon on this ride." Alas, for the pride of the Doyles, Pat crashed his bike on the fourth day in Iowa Falls, all those saloons and 250 miles from the last watering hole in Clinton. For those who made it from river to river, surviving...
FMCA is not for vanners, camper-trailer haulers or owners of the cruder class of recreational vehicles. The distinction is not so much an economic or social delineation as a statement: the esteemed "goose egg" FMCA plaque on the front of a vehicle, be it a mansion of the macadam or a turnpike retirement pad, means that it is a livable, functioning home. Its owner belongs to what may be the largest extended family in America...
...like napalm, it was an inferno," said a French visitor from Toulouse who had been washing dishes in a trailer that was spared at the edge of the camp. "People were running everywhere, screaming, some of them on fire." More than 100 were killed on the spot, most burnt beyond recognition. Another 150 or more lay writhing in the havoc, grotesquely scorched. In all, the fire storm that devastated Los Alfaques had killed 144 by week's end, and left some 75 injured, many critically. Not since a pair of jumbo jets collided and caught fire on a runway...
Workers will move the building by trailer today from its current location on Divinity Ave. to the area behind the Freshman Union, where it will become a residence for Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen. The move will make room for the construction of a new biochemistry building on the Divinity Ave. site...
L.B.M.: Recreational vehicle. Trailer to you, and 292 hookups mean places to plug in the lights. But let's get back to the show. We want a real blockbuster, lots of chests and feathers and special effects. I'll get them to build a stage just like the old days -biggest damn thing anybody ever saw, big enough to land an airplane...