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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...long. If a soldier tried to run in the coat, the leggings (which managed to connect the ankles directly with the neck) would trip him. Said one Korea veteran, when asked what he did on the run: "I'd take off the coat and throw it on a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waste Coats | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...sound track to balre their wares is most annoying and objectionable. The discontinuance of the sound track would help restore a greater element of peace and quiet to the Harvard community and would stop the dangerous precedent set in last term's blood drive, with its sound truck solicitations. Must Winthrop House continue to exploit its unfortunate captive audience, unobtrusively studying in their rooms? What shall it profit Winthrop House if it break even and surrender to modern American advertising technique? Ecrasez-Pinfame!David A. Halperin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP EXCORIATED | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

...Reservation and thus on federal land. The Secretary of the Interior had agreed to the move. One morning last week, under cover of a blinding snow storm, Grey Eagle and a crew of workmen dug up Sitting Bull's bones, hurried them across the state line in a truck, reburied them, covered the grave with 20 tons of cement, and stationed an armed guard near by. Mobridge prepared to place a bust of Sitting Bull by Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski over the new grave. Grey Eagle went contentedly back to his sod hut amid an outraged clamor from North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Sioux Victory | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...winner, at an average speed of 86.4 m.p.h.: dapper, greying Jim Kimberly (in red gloves and shoes), who had made an entrance into Austin that was spectacular even by Texas standards. Included in the Kimberly entourage: a trailer loaded down with two Ferraris, a machine-shop truck, a station-wagon car complete with bar, and two expert mechanics. The whole outfit was decked out in Kimberly's favorite fire-engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red for Ferrari | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Seizing his first opportunity, Conant hitched a ride into New York in the back of a CBS-TV film truck, stationed at the airport to record his arrival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Found Hitching Ride Easy After Flying Atlantic | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

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