Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were 21. The owner of a joint called Porky's rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising that the dry spell would not recur...
...swung their nightsticks with unnecessary relish as they tried to disperse a crowd that probably did not need dispersing. One Yalie got an eight-stitch dent in his skull, and a young, chesterfield-wearing history teacher was arrested and then, he claims, punched in the kidneys. A fire truck showed up, hosed down a dormitory that had a swastika and yacht flags in its windows. By the end of the brawl, 16 Yalemen, most of them the worse for wear, had been wagoned off to police headquarters-where they were released for trial next month...
...small restaurant. When he was seven, they took him back to Greece. In the National Technical University at Athens, Christofilos took electrical engineering. After graduation in 1938, he went to work for an elevator-building company. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, they turned the plant into a truck repair shop and gave him an easy supervisory job. Christofilos seized the chance to read all the German books he could get on advanced atomic physics. After the war he returned to the elevator business, but kept on restlessly reading physics...
Slim (5 ft. 11 in., 143 Ibs.) and supple, Gene Kotlarek first lashed on a pair of jumping skis at the age of four under the watchful eyes of his truck-driver father, George Kotlarek, himself a former U.S. champion. A freshman at the University of Minnesota's Duluth division, Gene practices two nights a week and on weekends with his father, still jumping at 46, and younger brothers Glenn, 17, and Wayne, 10, who compete in age-group meets. To develop strong leg and stomach muscles required for jumping, he does deep knee bends in his basement...
...till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers had helped him ("The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs") in his hitchhike attempt to reach Reno, where he "knew a lot of rich people" and hoped to get started...