Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model is her suitor's best friend and determined not to allow him to be victimized by a female fortune hunter. From here, The Rage of Paris plunges rapidly through every impossible variant of a not-too-original situation. Best line: comment of the driver of a milk truck when Nicole, wearing an elaborate evening gown, begs a lift: "These hitchhikers get better dressed every...
...Benes is a small, nervous, mouselike man, with cool eyes, hair thinning and greying at the sides, a mouth that seldom smiles. Czechoslovakia's No. 2 Washington was born on May 28, 1884, at Koslany. near Pilsen, in Bohemia, where his father scraped a living as a peasant truck farmer. As the youngest, most gifted of the family of ten, Eduard was sent to high school, then the University of Prague. There he became a national figure, not in politics, but as the flashy forward for the "Slavia" soccer team...
Guiding them was Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, a hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found...
...said that I was towed into the sky by an airplane, which was not true. I was launched by an engine-driven winch mounted on a truck (designed and built by E. Paul du Pont Jr.) winding in 4,000 ft. of ⅜in. manila rope spread across the airport. This enabled me to climb to 800 ft. above the ground before dropping the rope...
...radio studies over this long baseline will be carried out with automatic equipment set up within the laboratories, and with a specially equipped radio truck which will be used to make field observations between the two fixed stations...