Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guitar pros like Nashville's Chet Atkins say that Roy's pickin' is just about the best there is. His vibrating high notes come at the listener like a highballing truck. No less extraordinary are his strumming chord changes, his mercurial runs and the broad processional quality of his rhythms...
Dissidence within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is not rare; indeed, it is to be expected in the nation's largest union, which has 2.3 million members ranging from over-the-road truck drivers to nurses and policemen. But a report last week by the Washington-based Professional Drivers Council (PROD), a small but increasingly vocal organization of reformist Teamsters, amounts to one of the strongest indictments yet of corrupt, self-serving and autocratic Teamster leadership...
What went wrong? Competitors say that Bunky spent lavishly, as if he still had the vast resources of G.M. or Ford to draw on, and shrugged off warnings that truck making is a highly cyclical industry. When the 1974-75 recession hit and sales plummeted, White got into a painful cash squeeze, suppliers of parts slowed deliveries and banks became reluctant to go on making long-term loans...
...well after the late news and deep into the monster-movie hours, the time when TV punishes insomniacs with ads for truck drivers' academies and once-in-a-lifetime offers-"Send $6.98 for records, $8.98 for eight-track tapes" -for Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits and the Best of Connie Francis. Suddenly, a smoothly handsome, oddly familiar-looking young crooner appears on a softly back-lighted stage. While he pumps a microphone and purrs out a ballad, viewers begin to wonder: Como's kid brother maybe? An Italian Goulet? Then on comes the voiceover, hailing the "mood rock...
EVER since people started to get wind of the feminist movement in the late 60s, books on the subject of "women" have come tumbling wildly off the presses--face it, the subject's in vogue. Men rarely get written about because of their gender, but because they are truck drivers, astronauts, doctors or otherwise good at doing something. Books about women tend to deal with insanity, love, divorce, orgasms, the pill, the shape of their bodies (not from an athletic point of view)--subjects related to what women are, not what they do. The major task and concern of women...