Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill tried Boston College for a year, dropped out to drive a truck, finally returned, and was a 22-year-old senior when he ran for the Cambridge city council. Before doing so, he announced his intention to his father, who had once served on the council. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree," replied the elder O'Neill, not at all displeased...
...primary four years earlier, and his opponent this time, Republican Incumbent Dewey F. Bartlett, was a millionaire in his own right and well financed by oil interests. Yet Hall persisted, showing the same determination that got him through the University of Tulsa law school (he drove a Pepsi truck), and then saw him become Tulsa County's chief prosecutor...
...well that today ARVN corps commanders flit about the countryside in their personal helicopters, and some unit commanders bounce around in their own high-gloss, jet-black Jeeps. Even the lowliest enlisted man honors the American way of war: never walk when you can hitch a ride in a truck, never hitch in a truck when a Jeep is available, never ride in a Jeep when a helicopter is going your way. These profligate habits cost considerable fuel, as does the legitimate business of fighting a lingering war with a mechanized military force...
Displaying a sure political instinct, Simon has been extremely sensitive to reports of domestic price-gouging. When truck drivers last month blockaded highways to protest, among other things, allegedly illegal price boosts on diesel fuel, Simon ordered Internal Revenue Service agents to "sweep" truck stops in 16 states. The taxmen found 1,222 of 4,689 truck stops violating regulations. Most were ordered to roll back prices and make refunds to truckers...
...doubtful of those lyrics really mean. He made jokes about how people didn't often get him confused with I forget what other (redneck) star who has a similar name. He led into his version of Elvis by telling how Elvis came up one day in a pick-up truck from Tupaloo and said "I wanna make a record," and now, he said, even Charlie Pride got to say MR. Elvis...