Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Territorials, familiarly known as the "Terriers," roughly correspond to U.S. National Guardsmen. They have charge of Britain's antiaircraft and coastal defenses, the balloon barrages (rows of sausage-shaped gas bags, suspending thin, steel cables, which will be anchored to truck-winches and floated above the industrial centres in wartime) and emergency hospital work. In a decision, long expected and accelerated by the recent war scare, the War Secretary announced that the Terriers from now on will be patterned after the Regular Army. They will retain their antiaircraft and other duties, but four divisions will be mechanized, equipped with...
...from her blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians, ballad makers, storytellers. They are also high-spirited: 23-year-old Dena Janes runs away with a truck driver, leaves...
...Wilmott Lewis, Washington correspondent for the London Times, addressing the Bond Club of New York, declared: "It was very much like the old story of the four men who were endeavoring to lift a grand piano into a truck and were unable to do it. When the fifth man came along, the fifth man did what the four could...
This weekend, the Big Red faces what will undoubtedly be one of their stiffest encounters, in spite of last weekend's Harvard-Brown upset. Under similar circumstances in the past, pep rallies have been held with considerable success. There remains ample time to round up a sound truck, a few flares, the cheering squad, and the team itself. With relatively little effort, it should be possible to give the team a rousing send-off the evening of their departure...
...January 1936, assigned to a tree-cutting project, suspended for 15 days for drinking "in sufficient amounts 1) to draw the . . . attention of local police, 2) to cause him to remove trees not designated." He was fired in July 1937, after letting a falling tree damage a city truck. But Mr. Hunter's real target was rich, Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told of "Johnny," a young Italian "who has never known any work but WPA" and, according to Blackburn, didn't want any. "Johnny...