Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blocks from Durgin Park (on Haymarket Square) is Mondo's, a sober truck stop with a great juke. Tucked inconspicuously between two blackened buildings, it's relatively simple, except for its one charmingly vulgar extravagance. On the most prominent wall hangs an immense oil painting of a nude with crimson lipstick, enormous entrees, and a torso elongated beyond the elasticity of the human anatomy. The obvious, but affable errors in the painting speak well for Mondo's as a restaurant. It gets away with a great deal because it's a truck stop and people there wear white socks...
...instance, it printed a short article in its March on Washington issue which focused on earlier protests in the capital. "Two hundred people came to Washington from Johnson City, Tennessee." the article began. "Thirty men came by truck, from Pineville, Kentucky. The Texas delegation brought a goat named after the President.... They came [as members of the 1932 Bonus Army] to deliver a message to the President and Congress, to demand their veterans' pensions, and the President had them connections [between events] and we try to highlight those connections, make more of them." And this viewpoint affects even entertainment reviews...
Since the program was launched at a party plenum in December, the official press has been full of astounding reports: a ten-mile irrigation canal was dug in the Dibra district in eight hours, 49 five-ton tractor trailers were turned out of a truck plant in twelve hours, an "assault group" cut 1,137.5 cords of wood in seven days...
...raided that day, the place had been hastily abandoned. Only later, as the platoon moved on across the veldt, was there any firing at all. Toward sundown, Garros spotted a gazelle. "Get her, adjudant! Get her!" he shouted. The huge, tattooed second-in-command stood up in the truck behind and dropped the graceful animal with a single shot at 400 meters...
...priced finished steels used for auto bodies and appliances. Aluminum Co. of America is dropping some marginally profitable lines, notably welded tubing and automobile pistons. Inventories are coming under closer scrutiny. Ford announced two weeks ago that it will soon shutter its Pittsburgh parts warehouse and send parts by truck directly from Detroit...