Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change the union's bylaws, apparently so that he can name his successor if he is jailed. Moreover, he proclaimed, he is considering organizing professional athletes, particularly football players disgruntled with the huge sums paid to "bonus babies." The team owners may not prove as amenable as, say, truck-fleet owners. Warned William Clay Ford, president of the Detroit Lions: "We can make truck drivers of these players real easy...
...reach Supai, Arizona, you turn off Highway 66 at Peach Springs, follow the mail truck 65 miles across the desert to the edge of the Grand Canyon, and then wind your way by packmule to the Canyon floor a mile below...
...nuclear World War III," Pennsylvania's Clark asked if a resumption of bombing would really reduce infiltration. Rusk replied that the raids had in the past "undoubtedly made infiltration more difficult and more costly." Clark persisted, and Rusk, on the edge of annoyance, finally snapped: "Look, when a truck goes 45 miles in five days because of air attacks, that is some advantage over its covering the same ground in five hours...
...hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's a Viet Cong. So I saw this fellow on the road and yelled, To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with Lyndon Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck...
...Only Way. John Joseph Broderick came by his talents naturally enough. He grew up in Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest...