Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck carrying the shell had stopped at a toll booth when another truck slammed into its rear. While the shell was rendered useless, the riggings for the boat are intact and will be moved to another Stempfly being borrowed from Princeton...
...testimony was grim. According to witnesses, safety conditions in the plant were so bad that last year they prompted a wildcat strike. The floors were full of grease from leaky machines; overhead conveyors had no screens to catch falling parts. The aisles were so narrow and cluttered that forklift trucks and workers often could not squeeze by one another; one such truck recently crashed because of faulty brakes, toppling its load and killing the driver. For blacks, there was the added impact of racism. The jury heard of Negroes being called "boy," of whites advancing rapidly to foreman, while...
Harvard allows one to do luxuriously little of what it wants and still live with the silly comfort of getting a degree. What attention I did honestly pay to specific courses was adequately paralleled by a commitment to a vaguely decadent night club existence. Life was literally split between truck drivers and tutors, shifty club owners and sharp section leaders, drunken middle-aged divorcees and liberated women. South Boston crackers and black militant intellectuals; and between crowds trying to relax and students brutally trying to compete, between songs that often meant something to my life and papers that often argued...
...eastern bank, the Israelis are deeply entrenched in shellproof bunkers on the 95-mile Bar-Lev Line. Across the 200 yards of canal, the two sides keep constant watch on each other. The Israelis have built observation towers above the bunkers. The Egyptians occasionally drive a fire truck up to the canal, extend the ladder and clamber up to take a look at the Israeli side...
...applications, stalls on others, attaches unacceptable conditions to still others. Ford and Chrysler have been delayed for years in attempts to buy into the booming Japanese auto industry, and General Motors has won permission for only a limited investment: 35% ownership of a joint venture with Isuzu Motors, a truck maker. Says James Adachi, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: "We can set up a factory to make geta [Japanese wooden clogs], or open a supermarket, so long as it is smaller than 500 square meters...