Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck on which they traveled was so overcrowded that they rode atop the driver's cab. At that time, Chou-as well as the other Chinese Communist leaders-wore peasant garb and espoused poverty. Chou was very friendly; Mao Tse-tung even asked my husband to come back and organize a Y.M.C.A. in Yenan. Both, however, told my husband that no Christian could join the Chinese Communist Party...
...Netherlands' speed-loving Prince Bernhard hurtled along a Dutch road in his royal Lincoln. Bernhard's chauffeur sat at his side, idly watching the kilometers flit past. While trying to pass a road-hogging truck, the prince zigged when he should have zagged, wound up with the car doing a neat half rollover, followed by a ground-chewing landing on its side. The unperturbed chauffeur ceremoniously opened the door for unhurt Bernhard, who climbed out, hitchhiked to a gas station, phoned the royal garage for a fresh...
...Dancer, to track habitues as the Big Grey, and to a smaller group of intimates as the Big 'Orse, he is the Saturday matinee idol of several million TV viewers, many of whom have not seen a horse in the flesh since the milkman switched to a truck...
Long-overdue copies of 318, the College yearbook, will arrive in Cambridge by truck tomorrow morning. Held up since the originally scheduled release date of May 12 by a slowdown at the printers and binders, the book will be distributed in the House. Dudley, and the Union at lunch and dinner tomorrow...
...recently as last March, it cost $6 to truck a one-ton load 58 miles into Hanoi from Haiphong; last week it cost $25. One Hanoi dry-goods importer last year did $90,000 worth of business; last week he reduced his 1954 estimate to $25,000. The surest barometer of Hanoi's fear: real-estate values are down some 30% since March...