Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, the Coop was admitting quietly that Dietz was partly right. It changed its plans to show the annex set back from the street, as Dietz had suggested. An off-street truck loading dock that Dietz had also wound up in the Coop plans...
...after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon and Viet Cong guerrillas waiting in ambush shot him as he tried to escape...
...nurse tending tuberculous patients is entitled to workman's compensation if she catches the disease, for TB is undeniably a hazard of her job. But what about a truck driver who contracts TB while confined in his cab with a constantly coughing helper...
...caught TB from a mouthpiece infected by another operator; and to a lab technician who had the same experience with a pipette. The court was not impressed. In those cases, it said, the claimants faced "special hazard" in using oral tools that were indispensable to their jobs. A truck cab bearing a tuberculous co-worker is no such "instrument of transmission...
...subtleties of mule breeding or coon hunting. Most of his early memories are of hard, hard times. His father died when he was eleven, and he eventually had to quit high school to work the family's sharecropper farm. At 18, he hitched a ride on a cottonseed truck and landed a job singing on a radio station in Jackson, Tenn. After three years of internship with Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys ("I sold song books and swept out the auditoriums"), he got married and struck out on his own. At first the going was tough...