Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around Phoenix, 55-year-old Bill Nelson described himself as a retired business man, indicating that hie had been a cattle broker. Every morning he would drive downtown in his 1953 Ford pickup truck to look over the stock-market quotations. One morning last week he got into his truck as usual, waved goodbye to his wife, and attempted to start the engine. There was a thunderous explosion, and Bill's broken body fell near the driveway, 15 feet from the pile of junk that had been a truck...
Just twelve hours later some 1,000 Israeli troops, their faces blackened against the bright moonlight, bounced south by truck past the El Auja crossroads. Their target was an Egyptian outpost that was set on the lower slopes of an Egyptian hill but inside the demilitarized Israeli territory. A network of trenches, gun emplacements and barbed-wire barricades linked the forward post with stronger Egyptian positions around the hilltop...
This flexibility lasts throughout the day, which Joe can fill in numberless planned ways, from stripping tobacco to hauling feed in his truck, from supervising the work of a bulldozer, hired for $10 an hour, to stretching fence. The midday quitting time is 11:30 and, after a big meal, Joe stretches out on the parlor floor (which saves taking off pants and shoes to lie on a bed) for a half-hour nap to "let my eats settle." By 12:30 he is back at work. Ordinarily he stops at 6 or 7 o'clock, but in "pinchin...
...switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor. (He finally made it by hitching a ride on a truck.) King Paul, Queen Frederika and their two oldest children applauded the maestro's interpretation of Schumann's dramatic Second Symphony, and Mitropoulos joined them for a chat at the theater bar, where Princess Sophie served him a glass of water (a Mitropoulos must at intermission). When the royal couple...
...stock drops in value, many companies provide truck-sized loophole's to let workers escape from their payments. Inland Steel, Delta C & S Air Lines, Atlanta's Citizens' & Southern National Bank and Dow Chemical all hold the stock until the final payment is made; then if a worker decides that he does not want the stock, his money is returned...