Word: truck
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...night view of Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, is straight out of a Disney animation, and indeed the influence of Walt on Wood looks stronger than is usually acknowledged. In his curious Death on the Ridge Road, 1935, a painting of an impending car crash, the fatal truck coming over the brow of the hill has its wheels off the ground and skewed in the exact convention of cartoons...
Your description of Boston Criminal Lawyer Rikki Klieman's attempt to polish up the image of her client, the alleged kingpin in a truck-hijacking operation, was disturbing. If women lawyers have to cozy up to clients in order to con a jury into an acquittal, then feminism is making no progress...
...well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers, truck-winch manufacturers, scrap-metal piles...
...arrested. Checkpoints along the coastal highway were the scene of huge traffic jams throughout the week as Israeli soldiers searched all vehicles. Even so, one bomb was set off near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed at an open window and barked at a visitor: "Either put on a bulletproof vest or stay away from that window...
While it was getting leaner, Conrail was also getting stronger. With deregulation, it has been able to cut prices and grab business from other carriers. Last year, for example, it hauled 875 carloads of water-purification chemicals that used to travel by truck from a Du Pont plant in Delaware. Conrail also snagged a fuel-hauling contract from Lake Ontario barge operators and moved 6,583 carloads of fuel oil for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...