Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat on it for a year or two," he drawls. "Never did learn much about it." He learned to sing church hymns with a heavy beat, as Negro revival singers do, but gave no thought to a musical career. A couple of years ago, Presley, working as a truck driver, was seized with the urge to hear his own voice, took his guitar with him and made a recording in a public studio. "It sounded like somebody beatin' on a bucket lid," Presley recalls. "But the engineer at this studio had a recording company called Sun, and he told...
...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...
...evenings when a particular street is to be cleaned, a police sound truck will exhort car-owners to park their cars according to the new plan; on the evening of even-numbered days cars must be parked on the even-numbered sides, and vice versa. Violators will be ticketed, but not, under present plans, towed away...
...seven to nine months the heifer or bull (castrated into a steer to hasten fattening) is sold to the feedlot operators or to farmers who also specialize in fattening cattle for market. In Warren Montfort's barn in Greeley, Colo., a huge, self-unloading truck moves unceasingly up and down the quarter-mile-long pens, pushing Montfort's special feed mixture into the troughs while a solid line of white faces eat their heads off. Says Montfort: "This is a factory. We manufacture beef and nothing else...
...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it-and the pictur-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...