Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman has been split between the cherubic financial vice president Oscar A. Lundin, 63, who will serve as chairman in Murphy's absence, and a soft-spoken "generalist," Richard L. Terrell, 55, who rose from messenger through a wide variety of jobs at GM to head the car, truck, body and assembly divisions. Terrell had been considered a candidate for president and chief operating officer, but that post went to a friendly rival, Elliott M. ("Pete") Estes, who replaces retiring president Edward N. Cole, an innovative engineer. Estes, 58, a jovial, mustachioed product engineer and auto-racing enthusiast, joined...
...University should catch Hell. When President Bok places himself at the head of this small but determined band of modern day "Tawneyites," as he has recently done, his authority should be challenged, and if need be, broken. That challenge should be mounted by all those who will have no truck with a Harvard that could find DuBois himself "unqualified" for tenure. This challenge must be directed against all those Harvard administrators who fell that the Afro-American Studies Department has no rights that they are bound to respect. Those who seem to spend their whole lives denying to others...
Richard Nixon's illness was to be as secretive as his presidency. Accompanied by Pat and Julie, he walked briskly into Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center through a truck-dock entrance leading to the kitchens. Surprised by two hunch-playing reporters, he blurted a confused "Good morning-good afternoon." He went on up to his sixth-floor suite, located in a twelve-room wing that had been cleared of other patients to ensure his security and privacy. Then once again, the doors closed on the outside world...
...monopoly over delivery of first-class mail, freezing out potentially more efficient private competitors; gradually free airlines to experiment with lower fares for special classes of passengers; deregulate natural gas prices; move to eliminate antiquated Interstate Commerce Commission regulations that have fostered inflexible cartel-style rates and inflated truck and rail shipping charges by an esti mated...
...Quakers and Lions should not strike quite the same fear in the hearts of the Crimson. Today's Ivy League opener, McCurdy said, "won't be as much like running into a Mack Truck as last week's meet was." Harvard, indeed, stands a good chance of capturing its first win of the season...