Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brassier than the wooden version. With it he produces soaring, melodious, and fanciful clarinet passeges; deep, throaty, and emotional "trombone" interjections; and the clear, fiercely driving attack associated with the trumpet. Usually he does all at once, with a tone so magnificent one feels he could drive a truck down it and with such imagination and variety that one actually has to catch one's breath...
...Chicago, Deibel's first stop was at Chenoa, Ill. at Steve's Cafe. "Best steaks on Route 66," he claims, with the truck driver's air of finality about such matters. There he had time for his meal, no time for trivial talk. A short distance behind him rolled another Consolidated truck, with a "straight load"-goods without such a demanding time schedule. If #684 were to break down, they would switch trailers and the other driver would haul TIME to St. Louis. It hasn't happened...
...among newsstands and local distributing centers. In emergencies, extra copies have been flown to disaster points to avoid delays in delivery. When virtually all forms of land transport were bogged down by the July floods of the Kansas River, copies were rerouted around the flood area by an ingenious truck and train system-and got to subscribers and newsstands with minimum delay...
...road-building program. Turkey is a big country, cut apart by rugged mountain ranges and vast areas of distant plateau. Counting everything which wasn't simply a wagon track, ECA found barely 13,000 miles of roads, only 5,000 miles of them good enough for a truck. In the event of a Soviet attack on Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) would be vital; 360 miles northeast of it is Erzurum, headquarters of the Third Army which controls the Soviet-Turkish frontier. Yet there was no direct road between the two places...
...wrote Archbishop Gaetano Pollio, a slim, scholastic man with a black goatee. He saw the danger coming, but he would not leave his see of Kaifeng, in Honan. Nor would he have any truck with the bogus Catholic Church which the Communists were trying to set up. He prayed, he waited, he stayed...