Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton Gonne, 45, were crushed when a concrete overpass of the Golden State Freeway dropped squarely on the roof of their pickup truck...
Under normal circumstances, Madison Avenue would love Augustine Gizzi, a New Jersey truck driver and a true believer in advertising slogans. Trouble is, Gizzi not only believes, he goes out and acts on his beliefs. As a result, he has cast a legal pall over scores of sloganeers ranging from Avis ("We try harder") to Westinghouse ("You can be sure...
...jewel of Volume Two is the recipe for French bread. French people, it should be noted, do not bake their own bread: rather, they truck over to their local boulangerie in the a. m. with a couple of sous and buy it fresh. Mrs. Child and her co-author, Simone Beck, spent two years and 285 pounds of flour while working up a French bread recipe for Americans to use in their own kitchens. It takes seven hours, involves such diverse equipment as a folded bath towel, a razor, a hot brick, and dexterous fingers, but the result...
...perspective gained, his virginity lost. Randy struggles toward his diffident future. In an incident which is located somewhere between the two realities, somewhere between pathos and burlesque, Randy loses a foot to an errant truck on an unplowed Cambridge street. Burdened by further physical disability as well as the now familiar psychic pangs, he becomes an allegorical victim of the technological age. But he remains in touch with his now tenanted identity by cultivating new interests in candlemaking and pottery. Upon graduation Randy returns to his family home in Ipswich, Massachusetts and finds the world he once knew...
...ferry is not leaving on time because a truck has gotten stuck in the mud of the riverbank after driving half-way off. We wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . while no one does anything to budge the truck so the ferry can leave. If it doesn't leave pretty soon, we will miss the plane to Vientiane, and who knows when there will be another one to get us back to "civilization?" Doesn't anyone realize the urgency of the situation...