Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself. To grasp this radical notion, one may need to shift into metaphysical gear. Yet consider the vanner's relationship to the van: the true vanner has not merely romanced the motor vehicle in the traditional American way. Actually, the vanners have embraced and subjugated the homely panel truck and, with Pygmalion's zest if not his graces, have transmogrified it into something utterly new and distinct: a mobile monument to self. It is self-contained and self-containing, and its womby little room is packed with the motherly comforts of home, while its skin screams advertisements...
Phillips listened, thought about Presley, took his time making a decision. There was no rush. Presley, then 18, was pulling down $35 a week as a truck driver for the Crown Electric Co. About the only audience who knew him were his high school classmates who had watched, stunned, as their shy schoolmate hot-wired a class amateur show. Finally, Phillips called Presley back into the studio, a year after he had left with his gift for Gladys. That marked the last time in his life things would go slowly for Elvis Presley...
Carter is not exactly a grand old English name. The first Carters were, of course, carters, medieval truck drivers. Yet despite the family's hoi-polloi origins and plain-folks posture, Jimmy Carter's family tree turns out to have some hoity-toity upper limbs. The President is related to, among others, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington, three other previous Presidents and the first American millionaire...
...South Korea for a year with the 2nd Infantry Division, he had only one minor disciplinary mark on his record, a temporary demotion for not joining a truck-convoy movement on time. At first nothing about him impressed his Army acquaintances, though one said Berkowitz consistently refused to join the barracks banter about sex. Recalls a fellow soldier: "Whenever the subject of women or sex came up, David would back...
...Apollo 17 mission put the last Americans on the moon more than four years ago, NASA has been slowly turning away from one-shot man-in-space spectaculars. Instead, it has been concentrating an increasing amount of research and money on development of the space shuttle, a "pickup truck" of a craft that could be shot into orbit, stop off with men and equipment at a galaxy of space satellites and skylabs, and return to earth safely, making at least 100 round trips before being retired. By successfully completing the kind of landing it will have to make each time...