Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These 15 million humans don't have to be screened, classified, inspected, catalogued, rehabilitated and strangled by red tape. They want to get back to their folks and their own soil after years of slavery. None are more than a few days rail or truck journey from home...
...narration, a high-mettled, professionally military prose, delivered with quiet irony, is repeatedly given life and reso nance by images which show what "heavy seasonal rains" look and feel like to get a truck through, what Texan "elements" in a regiment are as people, something of what eleven hundred "replacements" mean in terms of death and survival...
...Future. The badly beaten Japs had left Rangoon's fine port unblocked and virtually undamaged. Soon Allied seaborne supplies for China could be transferred there to the rails that run to Lashio, as they were before the Japs took Burma. The slow, arduous truck haul over the Stilwell Road from India to Lashio might soon be merely a secondary supply service...
...Japanese, said the rebels, were among those who knew better. Their exquisite prints had no truck with either nature or morals. Drawn with "uncanny delicacy," they were "as strange and detached from everyday life as if they had dropped from the moon." The figures in them were black-haired dolls" ... expressionless, self-satisfied, self-sufficient. This was art for art's sake-in which the painter recognized that natural subjects simply existed. "No poem," declared Poet Charles Baudelaire, a pioneer in the new movement, "is so great, so noble ... as that which has been written simply for the pleasure...
Suddenly Albert Stark's truck struck a soft shoulder, slithered 175 feet off the road and hit a telephone pole. Down came the pole, and the wires snapped. Everywhere east of Denver, San Francisco...