Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just two miles up the road from the LBJ spread, though, is Emil Klein's 167-acre ranch. There, a battered pickup truck sits in the driveway, wash hangs on the line, and an income of a few thousand a year is all that one can expect. In the grim days of the Depression and the Dust Bowl, the face of Texas that Lyndon knew best bore a close resemblance to Emil Klein's pinched place, and so he cleared...
...that customers will change their habits if their relationship with the store is broken off too long. To speed reopening and keep Neiman-Marcus customers from changing, he roused a Dallas contractor out of bed for a fireside chat, hired a New York interior decorator before the last fire truck had departed...
...Asian countries, including Katmandu airport in Nepal and the University of Ife in Western Nigeria; Koor Industries, a complex of 30 factories that turns out everything from cement and glass to steel and light bulbs; the Zim shipping company; and 90% of Israel's domestic bus and truck transport...
...canny and constant delights: "If you make a married woman laugh, you're halfway there with her. Mind you, it don't work with a single bird. Get one of them laughin' and you don't get nothin' else." Bill Naughton was a truck driver before he began writing plays, but it is obvious that he kept a sharp eye on a lot of things besides the road...
...backfiring truck threw cops into a panic. At the climax of the demonstration, an explosion-a real one-resounded on the water side of the sleek, glass-skinned building as a 9-lb. shell splashed into the East River just 200 yds. away. In a weed-strewn lot on the opposite bank, 900 yds. away, police later found a 3.5-in. Army bazooka, still aimed at the U.N., with a Cuban flag taped on the barrel...