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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to leave the Britannia Beach Hotel, Hughes would probably have had to use the emergency stairs from his suites on the ninth floor, since the only elevators are in the center of the hotel. He could then have walked to the rear parking lot, where a Ford truck converted into an ambulance is always parked. Then he would have had to drive across the high, humpbacked Paradise Island bridge, which forms a narrow bottleneck between Paradise and the island of New Providence. On the return trip, he would have had to pass through a $2 toll gate. Leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS / Rashomon, Starring Howard Hughes | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Harvard, and his goal was to make Harvard athletics run as smoothly as possible. On the night before a home game, he was always on the job until nine or ten at night, and instead of travelling with the team for away games, he would arrive with the equipment truck the night before to make sure that nothing went wrong...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Jimmy Cunniff--No One Did More For Harvard | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

Their music is a combination of rock, country, cajun, boogie, swing and western. The songs range from some of the raunchiest truck-driving songs ever written, through Doug Kershaw's "Diggie-Diggie Low" to Carl Perkins's "Boppin' the Blues...

Author: By Robert A. Rosenberg and Roger L. Smith, S | Title: Booked to Cook | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...Here I sit with a broken heart, I took three bennies and my semi truck won't start...

Author: By Robert A. Rosenberg and Roger L. Smith, S | Title: Booked to Cook | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...next album is going to be recorded four tracks, with no over-dubbing. It will be named Cold Steel, Hot Licks and Other Truck Songs...

Author: By Robert A. Rosenberg and Roger L. Smith, S | Title: Booked to Cook | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

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