Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southerner's stubborn belief in himself and his white heritage of independence and toughness that accounts for his resistance to the personal misery of the blues. His country music looks to social explanations for unhappiness. In tedious love affairs, prisons, or truck-cabs Southern whites feel most intensely the emptiness of their lives. Rodgers sang...
Roaring down the Paris-Strasbourg highway two weeks ago, a 22-ton truck overturned and boxloads of books covered in blue imitation leather were scattered all over the road. Despite that slipup, the secret of the book was kept intact. Last week, when it was released well ahead of schedule, and without the usual publicity buildup, all France was surprised. One critic compared its impact to that of "a 75-ton meteorite," which, as it happens, is just about the weight of the 250,000-copy first edition of Memoirs of Hope: The Renewal, the first of three volumes...
Spreading Roots. Ponte's target is the traffic congestion that makes face-to-face meetings more and more difficult. "You can't realistically solve the problem by widening streets or banning cars," he says. "You have to adjust, reshuffle things and separate the trucks, cars and people, each on a distinct level. Back in the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans to separate traffic this way. Rockefeller Center tried it in the 1930s." In 1957 Ponte saw his chance to update both. To land a project in downtown Montreal, Zeckendorf had to submit a plan...
Harvard Police were notified instantly and within minutes a fire truck arrived to take the freshman, James A. Goldmann, to the University Health Services Emergency Room...
...article published Oct. 22, 1969 in Dump Truck, the CRIMSON supplement, Richard E. Hyland '70 said, "The only reason I wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that I might get caught." Hyland's article was in response to a CRIMSON editorial condemning terrorism on campus...