Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every score--and then the cheers erupted. But they weren't cheers. Screams would be the better word, or maybe squeals: the sheer delight of a naughty five-year-old who wakes up on Christmas morning to find not the threatened lump of coal, but a shiny toy truck in his stocking. Sweet Mother of God, he's actually winning, the cheers were saying, then tailing off to a manageable uproar. But what the hell are we going to do about that? they seemed to ask, behind the beatific smiles...
...Philip Caldwell, 58, a decisive but low-keyed executive, who has won Ford's attention as problem solver in a succession of jobs: chief of the company's truck operations, president of Philco-Ford, and head of automaking operations outside North America. Last year he was elevated to the title of vice chairman and membership in the newly formed office of the chief executive (along with Iacocca and Ford...
...typical tune will start with a strong melodic hook-sometimes tough, sometimes close to lilting-then build in volume and intensity, the instruments laying under and layering on one another until the song shatters around your ears like a sheet of glass falling off a fast-moving truck. This is heavy-metal music with easy-listening inflections, rock fierce enough for the FM stations, flighty enough to fit right into Top 40 AM radio...
...girls, who bolted and locked their doors, and sat or slept quietly within. I wandered the dark halls, accidentally meeting the hotel guest carrying the revolver, who told horror stories about hotels and blackouts and police strikes and brazen robberies. While I listened I wondered about Elvis--whether the truck driver-turned-rock 'n roll star could ever have broken big with his raw, exuberant, straightforward style if he were young in the larcenous and jaded...
...balcony of her room, Janey Cray, the grandmother, the truck driver, the die-hard Elvis fan, looked out over the vast, dark expanse of Memphis. Then she mixed another drink, and settled back into her chair...