Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no fanfare, no official greeting, nothing except a barren field and a television film truck waiting for James B. Conant, U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, when he arrived back in the United States two weeks ago. As a result, Harvard's retiring president became a hitch-hiker...
...this Age of Loyalty, the Attorney-General's list of subversive organizations has become one of the prime standards of fitness in all types of employment. One student we know confronted it when he applied for a summer job driving a truck for an ice company. Others have had to swear disaffiliation from its groups for camp, laboratory and stenographic jobs...
...other hand, Stuffy McInnis, coach of the Crimson nine, has lots of superstitions and is proud of it. The squad has already learned not to leave any crossed bats around, at least where Stuffy can see them. The coach also makes a practice of tipping his hat to a truck loaded with either hay or barrels...
...University, where he matched Flora's reputation by being voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within a year Benson had his master's degree, and went back to run the family farm (now owned by a brother...
...camp for "screening," beaten and kicked (reliable witnesses say) en route, including women with babies strapped on their backs. The number of Kikuyu "shot trying to escape" has risen in remarkable fashion. One Kenya police reserve unit hauled in four Kikuyu men. The prisoners were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None of the four was armed. Kikuyu (including at least one woman) have also been shot dead "while trying to wrest a Sten gun from a guard"-although...