Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved. The other notion was that somebody had been inspired by a thriller written 18 years ago by Hugh Pentecost, The Day the Children Vanished. Pentecost's tale describes the disappearance of a station wagon full of pupils. In his story, kidnapers load the wagon onto a large truck and take the children to a remote barn. The abduction is a ruse to draw people away from the local bank...
...nothing rational about the automobile industry. There is no other aspect of business that depends so much on psychology, prejudice and image"). Now the 44-year-old Lutz is moving into a new job: last week, he was appointed corporate vice president in charge of Ford's European truck operations. His assignment: to increase Ford's lagging share of the market...
...Confucian scholar, he had just left a Japanese college (Korea was then part of the Japanese empire). He started a tiny rice-cleaning plant in the sleepy southern city of Masan. Noting that all his competitors made deliveries by slow ox carts, Lee bought a truck -and soon left the competition in his dust, he recalls, "howling blue murder...
...Carter often summoned him, and the two held long talks alone on the back veranda of the mansion. The Governor ran all his top appointments through his confidant. Carter made a nearby Capitol office available to him, and several times each week Kirbo would pull up in his pickup truck, much to the annoyance of Capitol guards, and park in a VIP space...
...ancient, emotional connotations, shows up in these wars like a tribal ghost of Hamlet's father, urging revenge. Religion, especially when it blends with the secular religion of nationalism, fetches back to timeless grievances and can find in them that nasty, righteous "Gott mil Uns" that wants no truck with the enterprise of peace - which in this world is always temporal and temporary...