Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem revealed by Buzhardt about the subpoenaed tapes will also be examined by the technical panel. He said that there are often silent spots, and he attributes them to the voice-actuated recorders monitoring the President's offices. They could be triggered by other sounds, such as a passing truck or the ticking of a clock, even though no conversation was taking place. Ben-Veniste said the silences were several minutes long. Yet persons familiar with the White House system contend that it shuts off automatically if no additonal sound is heard within about 10 seconds. As for a clock...
...pair figured that what the Teamsters needed was a major image lift called America on the Move. The project would involve a TV network special, a nationwide truck tour and a high school essay contest on the subject of "What America on the Move Means to Me." Without appearing to give the matter much thought, the Teamsters put up $1.75 million. It was just a "little flyer," declared Teamster Secretary-Treasurer Murray W. ("Dusty") Miller. Over the years, the Teamsters have mysteriously lost millions of dollars in similar projects that turned out to be astonishingly poor business ventures for such...
...This year I can bring a truck over to Harvard full of wood and sell the whole thing in one night without as much as snapping my fingers," he said. "I used to have to hustle; it's kind of nice to have people come...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
Though an outsider might think that the truck drivers had designs on Farmer Brown's henhouse, they are actually talking about a roadside weighing station ("little white church") equipped with scales ("chicken coops") and manned by state inspectors ("hens...