Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
...auto companies believe that these operations are natural extensions of their traditional car-loan business. GMAC, which has 8 million customers with car and truck loans, last week announced that it will mail letters to many of its Michigan borrowers, suggesting that they also apply for a home mortgage...
...McNeely is pleased that after a career as a truck driver and a guitar player he has hit on a role that carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal in Tombstone, the dust-blown Arizona town best known for a gunfight that gave him his fame, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Today McNeely is Tombstone's marshal. Tourists often ask him for his autograph, and he is flattered...
...summer of 1976, Judkins, then a 19-year-old New Hampshire boy attending Haverford College, signed on as a cook with a circus bound for broke. Cooking led to a truck-driving job, then magician, then fire-eater ("It's just basic common sense. Heat rises. Keep the heat going up. Keep your mouth wet--and your mustache trimmed"), then sideshow manager, then ringmaster. Then the show went bankrupt. Judkins' last task, in December 1977, was to return an elephant leased from D.R. Miller. Hauling a rented trailer that the elephant was systematically reducing to bits, Judkins reached Hugo penniless...
...Sometimes I feel like just leaving, looking for a normal life," the general manager confessed. "You'll be driving along at 5 a.m. and the window on your truck won't shut all the way and you're freezing to death and you see lights from houses come on and you know there's coffee and a regular breakfast in there somewhere. But I'm hooked, I guess...