Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truckers cruise over the surface of the nation without being a part of it," John Steinbeck wrote in Travels with Charley. On the road they have their own language of flashed lights and hand signals. Their oases are the dull-colored, neon-lit truck stops that offer chummy waitresses and hearty food, often throwing in hot showers and cheap rooms for a quick snooze. For a look at the truckers' special world, TIME Correspondent William Friedman hitched a ride with two truckers bound from Chicago to Los Angeles. His report...
...monotonous routine of the road, a break is as welcome to the trucker as it is to any family of tourists jammed into their station wagon. Gregory shifted down and pulled into the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, a huge truck stop even for the big roads of the Midwest. Outside the Dixie, cattle on the way to market kicked the sides of their trailers, horses neighed, hogs squealed. Dust and diesel fumes mixed with the sweet prairie air and the scent of frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have...
Vendor Thomas George, 44, was accustomed to sell such sweet delights at a neighborhood park in The Bronx. But the New York City police suspected him of peddling an illegal variation of the dreamsicle. Last week a patrolman staked out George's truck and arrested him for allegedly selling heroin to a teen-aged customer. Police claimed that the Good Humor Man also had 81 horse-race betting tickets and eight more packets of heroin in his truck. Who is left whom little children can trust...
...troubled. But the circumstantial evidence kept accumulating last week. Police say she purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after the gunfight, she bought an airplane ticket in nearby San Francisco for a flight to Los Angeles...
...Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...