Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, the Navajo reservation in Arizona where Sue Williams lives had no lights and no paved streets, and people got around by horse and wagon. Now, she says, things are a lot better--nearly everyone has a pick-up truck and some new houses have been built...
With money tight and auto sales plunging, George Nouhan, a partner in a Chevrolet dealership in Hamtramck, Mich., began advertising that he would consider anything, anything at all, as a trade-in on a new car or truck. From around the country, inspired offers have been pouring into Hamtramck, a factory town encircled by the city of Detroit...
...subterranean society of professional crime, the fence is an economic necessity. Godfather to rip-off artists ranging from truck hijackers to snatch-and-grab junkies, the fence buys their "swag" (stolen goods) for a fraction of its value and unloads it swiftly at slightly below wholesale to respectable folks eager for a bargain. Though he is the underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling...
...denials: the stories are wildly contradictory. If all the rumors inspired by Giscard's style naturel were true, he would have a capacity for bilocation and legerdemain that might more accurately be dubbed "le style surnaturel." Take, for instance, his purported 5 a.m. car collision with a milk truck last September. The accident was reportedly witnessed by some on the Champs Elysées, by others in a Paris suburb. Some say they saw him driving a black Citroën, some a green Peugeot. Others knowingly assert that the vehicle was a red Maserati borrowed from his friend...
...Every time I would shoot, no matter how many feet behind the foul line it was from, the ball would take this strange trajectory and end up in the basket. If the Institute of Defense Analysis had been around to watch, they'd probably have junked the electronic battlefield. Truck and Meyer and Ed Thompson and Matt Busby just stared and watched, and after awhile even the dude I've disliked since we were both eight years old stopped trying to steal the ball from his teammates because he realized it didn't make any difference. "Where did you learn...