Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...
...truck swung into the circle in front of the House, and its driver politely asked for "the tree." What tree? "The Christmas tree I'm supposed to take to Agassiz Hall." That was the promise. "Oh, sure, we got a tree, see it all nice out there in the lighted dining hall? An' sure darling, oh, of course we'll give it to you." So the truck driver wanted the tree...
...reveal the promiser, although suspicion pointed to several people of the sort that have the destiny of trees at their command. No one even knew who had sent for it, but it must have ben a potent promise. You have to be pretty sure of yourself to hire a truck...
...Bernard Law Montgomery in the east. His Eighth Army had moved some 700 miles beyond its base at El Alamein. Until recaptured Bengasi was restored as a usable port, each tank on Montgomery's new front required the exclusive service of a 1,000-gallon self-propelled tank truck. The gasoline supply problem alone was mountainous. The problems of food, ammunition and spare parts piled mountain upon mountain...
...teachers "think of the new generation growing up on the other side of the Rhine, sturdy fellows whose bodies [were] carefully trained." The Green family refused to budge when the German advance swept to the edge of Paris in 1914. Julian Green joined the American Field Service, drove his truck erratically on the Argonne front. So many burial shrouds, made of fine material, were delivered to his group that Author Green grew accustomed to sleeping on them and eating off them...