Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these high-technology federal programs have been winding down, and Rockwell has been shifting the researchers to developing such products as pocket calculators and computerized truck brake systems. With the three latest acquisitions, Government contracts will be shrinking from roughly half of Rockwell International's business last fall to just under one-third. Says Al Rockwell: "Admiral is not the end-all merger, but we do feel that we will now have a balanced, well-rounded organization...
Four men have arranged a weekend of undisturbed eating at a fenced-in country house once owned by the classical poet Boileau-Despreaux. Their arrival is followed by the arrival of the meat truck bearing wild boar, lamb, beef. Each carcass is ceremoniously described: "Three dozen young Ardennes roosters...two superb, soft-eyed deer, the flesh redolent...ten dozen semi-wild game hens...
...that the bus, a goofy-looking vehicle, naturally attracts your sympathy if not your affection. Its novelty is an ice-breaker. The bus drivers may describe themselves as loners, but as any hitch-hiker who has been picked up by the king of the loners--the long-haul truck driver--can tell you, loners are often the most friendly people going. Jack, who knows me by my first name, is a jokester and friendly story-teller. Although I may look like a clown and invite razzing, I have been teased in a good natured way by the other drivers...
Driving deeper into Syria, we passed abandoned concrete bunkers built into the sides of the hills by the Syrians and protected by blast walls nearly six inches thick. Strewn about were hundreds of empty cans of Danish beef and Lebanese cheese. A camouflaged truck, looking quite new, sat abandoned outside one of the bunkers. Our escort officer, a major in intelligence, searched the truck and came out with a manual printed in Russian...
...small concrete pathway separates mammoth Littauer Center from the gargantuan Undergraduate Science Center. It would be difficult to drive a large truck between the giants--nevertheless Harvard wanted to build a $5 million International Affairs Center on that spot...