Word: truck
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...waited by her truck for three hours until she came out again, and this time she just put her black pickup in reverse without even extending the decency of cursing...
...Blind to See Your article about how U.S. truckers and bus drivers are being enlisted to spot terrorists left me disappointed by the level of ignorance that prevails in the U.S. [July 5]. Training truck drivers to be watchful is sensible, but the lack of focus on cultural nuances and sensitivities is a big mistake. The truckers' parochial and prejudiced behavior?like calling Indian Sikhs "Islamics"?reflects this ignorance. Not every Muslim is fanatic, and not every turban-wearing guy is Osama bin Laden's distant cousin. Muslims from different countries embrace very different ideals. I am sure the Department...
...large molecule--he held court over the new field of research that this discovery unleashed. Exuding an Edwardian elegance of logic as well as dress, he instantly brought to mind the good-natured arrogance of Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. From early adolescence, Crick had no truck with truths arrived at by religious revelation as opposed to observation and experimentation. Upon learning that Cambridge University's science-dominated new college was planning to build a Christian chapel, he resigned from the rank of its Fellows. "Perpetuating mistakes from the past" was not Crick's way to move...
...effects (notably in the Fresh Aire CD series) to stereo and hi-fi dealers as demonstration tracks. Since then, he has set up a specialized distribution network, allowing him to sell at more than 40,000 non music retail outlets, including sporting-goods vendors, supermarkets, greeting-card emporiums and truck stops...
...officer briefed him on local customs: "Whenever someone offers you something to eat, accept it. That's being polite." Booth followed the advice, inhaling more exotic food, culture and adventure in those three years than most people manage in a lifetime. He eventually returned to Britain, worked as a truck driver, legal clerk, wine steward, English teacher and, only after he turned 40, a writer. But that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts...