Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government's campaign for Candidate Carmona predicts civil war if Mattos should win and circulates outlandish whispering-campaign stories, one of them to the effect that Mattos once became enraged when he was thrown from a horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...
...Valeteria last week borrowed a truck and delivered clothing to owners whose addresses were on the charge slips and shipped the rest to the Embassy Cleaners, 300 Washington st., Somerville, where the management allowed DeTucci to leave them on deposit until called...
...union's membership from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. They will go after new members in the automotive trades, bakeries, the beverage industry, building and construction, canneries, dairies, the taxicab and short-haul bus fields, general hauling, sales drivers, the produce field, warehouses and driveaway and truck-away enterprises...
...most agreeable place I had been in thro' all my peregrinations." To Chronicler Hamilton the American character in Rhode Island seemed no more admirable than elsewhere: "I am sorry to say that the people in their dealings one with another, and even with strangers, in matters of truck or bargain, have as bad a character for chicane and disingenuity as any of our American colonys...
...also has its occupational hazards. Last summer Burke was clicking the traffic light and directing a divinity student when there was a low rumbling and Burke stuck his head out of the window. He was greeted by an uncomfortably large Jordan Marsh truck which rammed the booth, picked it up, and deposited it in front of a jewelry store on Brattle Street. The booth was somewhat crumpled and Burke wrenched his shoulder, which still annoys him during damp weather, but the Jordan Marsh man was very apologetic, and Burke dismisses the incident. He figures the odds are strong against...