Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduating in 1940, and stayed on at Princeton. Somewhat to his own surprise, he soon found himself in a civilian pilot training course. "Other guys," he explains, "were taking the course who didn't seem particularly inclined that way either, so I tried it." His teacher, a former truck driver, liked to fly the Waco trainers upside down, and the "first thing I noticed was that my cigarettes in my jacket pocket were falling out and slipping past my face...
...drive away. The car's gears were locked in reverse when the wrecker arrived. The truck driver tried to yank the gears into neutral, but couldn't, so he towed the car forward with gears locked. The drive cost the owner five dollars plus a now transmission...
...closely with Brazil's Communist Party, which two of his uncles had helped start, often led student strikes and demonstrations against the government. In 1935, with the police on his trail, he was smuggled to his grandfather's mango farm in the false bottom of a coffee truck. Four years later he broke sharply with the Communists after he outspokenly questioned the authority of top Reds...
...Wilshire Drugstore a "rich man's Schwab's. Our clientele is different . . . We have a Romanoff, Chasen's, LaRue type of clientele." To keep his clientele, Kreis stays open 24 hours a day (Schwab's closes at midnight), delivers sandwiches and prescriptions in a black truck with gold leaf lettering, carries such carriage-trade items as $500 hairbrushes and $250 shaving brushes. Like the best nightclubs, it has plug-in telephones (at the soda fountain) and a pressagent...
Johnson, headlined as the "blitzkrieg bandit," met Hughes several months ago when he came to the Mirror to ask help in getting a driver's license so that he could work as a truck driver. Hughes got him the license, from then on frequently got calls from Johnson. "He was a mixed-up guy," says Hughes, "who has been in crime ever since he was a kid. He likes to talk and I like to sit back and listen." Two months ago, Johnson stopped calling after police started looking for him as a suspect in the strangulation murder...