Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic sense, it was in Charlotte that the finest victory was won. A crowd began to gather at 8:30 a.m. to await the only Negro assigned to Harding High School (three others were sent to other schools). Mrs. John Z. Warlick, small, shrill wife of a truck driver, began whipping up excitement. "It's up to you to keep her out," she told teen-age boys. At 10:30 a.m., the crowd spotted the girl: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15, daughter of a theology professor at Charlotte's Johnson C. Smith University, was walking down the street with...
SAFETY VIOLATIONS by truckers are worrying ICC, which is pushing to bar six of the offending truck lines from highways, plans to get tough with all lines. In nationwide spot check, ICC inspectors surveyed 50,000 trucks, stopped about 25% because they looked or sounded unsafe. Closer examination showed that 88% of them violated at least one safety rule governing interstate trucking and that 19% were in hazardous condition...
...bitch." But a more common reaction is that of the Boston milkwagon driver who said: "The court didn't find him guilty [of bribery]. For my dough he's a go-through guy." More ominous and often just beneath the surface was the reaction of a Philadelphia truck driver when asked what he thought of Hoffa: "I'd rather look at that river over there than float...
...marked from birth as another-worldling. At his christening, thunder rumbles in the distance, and a panicked cat scratches the notary's wife. Calamities hound the sweet, shy child-a deer hunter's slug pinks his skull and shatters a bust in the city hall, a truck on which he is perched roars runaway downhill to crash through a cottage. The villagers take muttering notice that no matter how badly such disasters may damage the boy's surroundings, they never cause Gaspard any lasting harm...
...lead out of their community, and one civic orator had pompously puffed: "It will be no time at all until we feel the real impact of this development," thieves broke into the Hudson's Bay Co. store, lifted its safe and $4,500, escaped in a stolen truck on the new road...