Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa comprising a requisition functionary, a blacksmith (in case the owner had barred the doors), two city cops on motorcycles ("policemen on motorcycles are always more impressive,'' (explained La Pira), and sometimes La Pira himself. In a matter of minutes, the evictees rolled up in a truck with all their furniture and took possession...
Lillian Briggs, 22, used to be a brunette truck driver. Now she is a blonde entertainer who earns adulatory shrieks and $500 a week with her voice and her trombone. Lillian likes that trombone. "Boy," she says, "it really...
After graduation, Lillian decided to look for a steady job. "I kept looking under 'female' in the want ads, which I thought was right, after all. But one day I read under 'male,' and there was an ad for a truck driver at the Hudsco Cleaners in Catasauqua." Being crazy about cars, and meeting no objections at home, Lillian found herself behind the wheel of a 2½-ton truck. She stuck to it for 14 months before she quit. "I felt tired, sort of beat up," she says. For a while, she worked...
...play trombone. The rock 'n' roll fad has probably whirled her up faster than otherwise would have happened, but her sudden good fortune has not made her cocky. "If anything goes off in this business," she says. I'll go back to driving a truck...
...bear down too heavily on salvation between the innings. His talks-mostly about perseverance, hope, kindness-had plenty of light moments. When the microphone caught a ballplayer cursing, Pastor Key pointed up an alternative to swearing with the story of the Quaker lady motorist who squelched a blaspheming truck driver with "When thee gets back to thy kennel, I hope thy mother bites thee...