Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nopokum said that he sprang from the reservation of Tablefortoo, which is adjoining to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. By today he expects a "heap big" tribe of fellow Indians to stagger into town on a beer truck with every intention of pitching their tepees in Stoughton...
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Near Oklahoma City, Okla., a truck rolled downhill out of control, snapped off a pole bearing a high-voltage wire, which fell across a metal sign, which touched a barbed wire fence, which set fire to a patch of grass, on which Farmer R. M. W. Cody threw a pail of water, which splashed on the electrified fence, electrocuting Farmer Cody...
Chubby (George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Vowed to hospitality as well as to poverty, chastity and obedience, Little Sisters accept gifts but not incomes or endowments which would require managing property. Once they went through city streets in horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their...