Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really wasn't surprising that the state Truck Roadeo took place here with little publicity, some disorganization and considerable indifference among some of its entrants. In fact, it had been canceled for several weeks, due to a general lack of interest...
...Roadeo, by the way, is an event in which truck drivers compete in maneuvering their rigs through a closed course for time. Among other problems, they must parallel park, back into a loading dock and drive forwards and backwards through a serpentine course, around obstacles that allow only inches of clearance. The course is difficult, and even drivers with 20 years' experience sometimes wash...
...grew up in Birmingham, the son of a truck driver, tried to play professional baseball and went to football-crazy Auburn University before finally turning to writing, and he begins The Good Old Boys with personal pieces about his father and baseball. In later, increasingly factual pieces, it becomes clear that the way he looks at the South comes out of the experience of growing up there, and that his sentiments and observations are home-grown. His favorite kind of piece seems to involve some sort of journey back into his own past through looking at the remnants...
...plain between the capital city of Nicosia and the Kyrenia Range, which shields the capital from the sea, a stick of Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk named Sami, smiled broadly as he unbuckled his gear and slipped out of his brown chute. "This makes me tremendously happy," he said, apparently having been well coached by his officers. "We are just here to look after...
...constituencies, often adopt policies that spur rather than slow inflation. For example, the Agriculture Department is now buying up $100 million worth of "excess" beef and pork in a deliberate effort to keep prices paid to farmers and feed-lot operators from dropping. Federal regulatory agencies often set railroad, truck and barge freight rates high enough to protect the most inefficient carriers from competitive damage. A separate federal agency should be empowered specifically to watch for such practices and try to get them stopped...