Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Graphic Arts International Union (GAIU) continue to picket daily. Yesterday about 35 workers and a few students picketed the Freshman Union, stopping deliveries from all but one truck...
...come on, Mr. Sidey [May 6], y'all been generalizing about us down here. As born, bred and proud Southerners, we disapprove of Richard Nixon's sham presidency as much as any Yankee in Massachusetts or New York City. Why, we could round up a pickup truck full of pro-impeachment folk without leaving the county...
...travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along?an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside; a Ministry of Education rule forbids firearms in any building where students are assembled...
...trio of commandos, dressed in jeans and carrying knapsacks filled with explosives, first surfaced at midnight along the Safad road two miles from Ma'alot. One of them stepped into the highway and attempted to stop a truck carrying seven Arab women home to the village of Fassouta from night-shift work at a nearby textile plant. When the truck driver, aware that an alert was on, refused to stop, two of the Arabs opened fire. One woman was instantly killed, another mortally wounded, and all the others were hurt. The truck's engine was shot out. Driver Faiz Saad...
Notorious Machismo. Researchers agree that some social groups make especially heavy usage of obscenities. Truck drivers, factory and construction workers and men in the armed services are notorious cursers, often as a demonstration of their machismo. In a survey of the language patterns of 3,000 midwesterners, Psychologist Paul Cameron found that 24% of the vocabulary of factory and construction workers on the job consists of "dirty" words. It is hard, notes Cameron, to put together sentences with more swear words than that. White-collar professionals, he found, have only a 1% rating in the office...