Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People are not expected to cheat in the Wellesley bike race. Perhaps this is because it is quite difficult to chest. In fact just about the only way to circumvent the law is to grab the tailboard of a passing truck; or have a friend over the next hill with a motorcycle...
...Cominform countries had tightened the screws of their economic blockade. The Tito press last week indignantly reported the basis on which the Russian satellite nations were prepared to do business with Tito's country. For one tractor, Poland or Czechoslovakia asked 377 tons of bauxite; for one truck engine, 60,000 tons of maize; for one motorcycle, 180 tons of raw gypsum...
...rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...
Smaller checks are not unknown in the West, but this will be the first nationwide nose count, extending even to Canada. Over-the-road and other heavy duty truck drivers will come first. Later checks would tap cabbies, milk drivers and other workers in the domain ("everything on wheels") that Beck covets. Major target is the lush crop of unorganized truckers carting perishables from the South...
...next hour, firemen poured water on the tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...