Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gore Vidal, Truman Capote -show a flair from time to time, but perhaps because cleverness is so desperately expected of them, often sound as if their hearts are not in it, as if they are merely paying tribute to the old masters. Capote once called Jacqueline Susann "a truck driver in drag." Have we come to this? During Watergate, H.R. Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, referred to Senator Daniel K. Inouye as "that little Jap." He then defended himself by saying that he "wouldn't mind being called a little American," thus replacing an insult...
...last week as the 15-flight "Rocky Mountain Transfer" got under way. Soldiers carrying grenade launchers patrolled Stapleton, and teams of medics with Chinook helicopters were stationed at four points along the air route, which was mapped across the sparsely settled northern sections of both states. In Utah the truck convoy that would carry the bombs 40 miles from Dugway Proving Ground, where the planes were scheduled to land, to Tooele was well rehearsed: drivers and guards had traveled the route three times, foiling nine different mock terrorist attacks along...
Schaefer's weapons have been gall, soft soap, hard nose, demonic energy and the kind of showmanship Baltimore had not seen since the death of vaudeville. During a crippling 1974 strike by municipal workers, Hizzoner was out there pitching garbage on a sanitation truck. When the new National Aquarium failed to open by the July 4 deadline he had guaranteed, Willie Don, as they call him, demonstrated his contrition by plunging into the seal pool (temperature 79°) in striped Victorian swimsuit and straw boater, clutching a yellow rubber duck (he is also affectionately known as Donald Duck...
...flowers, bread and drinks to the drivers, some of whom took off their shirts to bask in the August sun. Organizers from the Solidarity labor union handed out leaflets, and comedians entertained the growing crowd. Using a sound system borrowed from a jazz club, Solidarity leaders turned a flatbed truck into an impromptu stage, from which they denounced the government's failure to remedy the food situation...
...riderless stallion, the orange fire truck rolled slowly toward the cemetery in Panama City last week, bearing a flag-draped coffin that was topped by a distinctive canteen, bush hat and gun holster. At the grave, a 21-cannon salute boomed as the coffin was lowered amid a torrent of flowers. Thus did Panama bid farewell to its strongman, Omar Torrijos Herrera, who was killed when his plane crashed four days earlier...