Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place where Alice doesn't live any more is a cramped tract house in Socorro, N. Mex. The reason she doesn't live there any more is that her dense, repressive husband providentially dies in a truck accident soon after the movie begins. Now she is free to pursue her laughable but somehow touching dream of becoming a popular singer...
...article on David Matthews, the Director of Sports Information, which appeared in the Dump Truck issue of January 15, 1975, included several remarks demonstrating an ignorant and damaging attitude toward Radcliffe sports. While trying to describe the difficulty Matthews has in trying to get Boston sportswriters to cover Harvard-Radcliffe sports events, the reporter included a parenthetical remark: (Who cares, after all, about some fencing match or a Radcliffe field hockey game?) Athletes at Harvard-Radcliffe who compete on an inter-collegiate level have all made a committment of time and energy to their sport. It is not easy...
...consumers find they have some money left over after paying their heating bills, they plan to spend it cautiously. Fuel and heating bills finally compelled Samuel Trepanier to mothball his truck in his backyard in Clarendon, Vt. When the President announced his program, Trepanier figured: "If the rebate comes to more than $300, I'll get my pickup back on the road...
...year plan in 1976-want massive foreign investment, industrial know-how and sophisticated technology from the U.S. Although such aid has long been available from Japan and Western Europe, the Soviets calculated that only the U.S. could provide the technology for such grandiose enterprises as the $5 billion truck-manufacturing complex on the Kama River. In light of this hunger for credits, Moscow was stunningly humiliated when the Senate tacked an amendment onto an Export-Import Bank bill setting the paltry $300 million limit on the amount that would be available to the Soviets. It was probably this amendment, sponsored...
...fork." For Bang the Drum, DeNiro, who had never played baseball, spent weeks in south Georgia and in spring-training camps in Florida learning the life of a tobacco-chawing Dixie ballplayer. "The first day I got to Georgia," DeNiro recalls, "I met a guy in a pickup truck and he drove me around. I taped his voice, other voices, even the mayor of the town." As for the tobacco, "you get nauseous at first...