Word: truck
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Taking a break to sip coffee from the back of a pick-up truck, construction workers snapped pictures and one man even whipped out his video camera...
From January 1999 to February 2000, Haddock clocked 10 miles a day from Pasadena, Calif., to Washington, D.C. She talked to everybody from truck drivers to Senators along the way, according to G. Bart Turner, a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student who said he walked with her for one day in Arizona. “She’s hard to keep up with!” Turner said walked with her for one day in Arizona. “She’s hard to keep up with!” Turner said of his experience...
...stuff. Your hands get a little bloody, a little dirty, and you're ready for bed at 1 a.m.," he says, perhaps explaining why, in Rennick's custom-built Yucca Valley, Calif., home, the garage is bigger than the house. (Hey, something has to house the 1948 Minnesota fire truck he just bought...
...Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, but few of his songs were hard-driving rave-ups. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues--these are, if anything, contemporary folk songs. Cash sang of specific injustices and eternal truths; he was the deadpan poet of cotton fields, truck stops and prisons. He was a balladeer, really, a spellbinding storyteller--a witness, in the Christian sense of the word. Here was a man who knew the Commandments because he had broken so many of them...
...slapping another who is wailing for attention on the mud floor. Orphaned at an early age, Ghotair was married to a cousin because, in war-torn Afghanistan in the early 1990s, no girl was safe unwed. At 24, Ghotair has been married 12 years and her husband, a pickup-truck driver-when he finds work-can barely support the family. Asked to describe her life, Ghotair smiles, but her answer is somber: "Finding bread to eat during the day, sleeping at night and looking for bread again in the morning...