Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transportation continued to move, at least sporadically. Since last spring, the U.S. has used a strategy known as "pursuit-of-a-target system." Now, U.S. flyers seek to make a whole series of cuts in roads and rail lines in a steady round of attacks, thus trapping trains and truck convoys between the cuts and making them easy targets. Pilots have noticed in recent weeks that fire from antiaircraft batteries and SAM missile sites has fallen off considerably in some areas; they believe that the reason may be that it is getting increasingly harder to supply the sites with ammunition...
...nothing to do with her at all. She felt that it was an ugly, stupid name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...
...Jarrell at 51 was killed by a truck while walking on a highway near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he had ?. lived and taught for many years. In a touching memoir, his widow recalls the "desperate valor" with which he faced the final nervous breakdown before his death. He was "granted a few magic weeks" in which "poems flew at him, short ones, quatrains, haiku, aphorisms, parts of speech, parts of poems, ideas for poems, until just words beat at his head like many wings...
...demonstrate that it is not quite paralyzed, the government last week eased its controls on installment buying of autos, appliances and furniture; the minimum down payment for a car or truck was cut from 30% to 25%, on appliances from 33% to 25%. But even the government agreed that the move was only a nibble at Britain's knotty economic problem: how to resume its growth without inflation, and without attracting a flood of pound-imperiling imports. Harold Wilson is clearly confident that his economy is ready to rebound, but that is a lonely view in London...
...unemployment office still refused to recognize his eligibility for compensation because Linsenmeyer had appealed the judgment, leaving Jackson technically unable to prove his employment. He was told, however, that in order to keep his claim alive he would have to refile it every week. He had a pickup truck, but it needed five tires and work on the engine. So for 100 straight weeks, Jackson hitchhiked the 28-mile round trip between his cottage and the city to re-enter the fruitless unemployment application. The rest of the time he tended the vegetable garden that fed him-until it died...