Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoping the strike would peter out. So, for days, did Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor government. But British tempers frayed. Cried a Tory M.P.: "It's the most effective way the Communists have yet found of sabotaging simultaneously the Labor government and Marshall aid." Said a truck driver (and Transport Union member): "When I get down to the docks in the morning and see these silly buggers striking at the gates...
...Mindszenty had been jailed for four months for his opposition to Naziism; now he was risking himself again. Through the Hungarian countryside he drove his own Alfa-Romeo at a dangerous pace from one mass meeting to another. After Communist police cut the power supply for his sound truck, he got his own portable generator. The government warned Hungarians not to listen, but the cardinal drew crowds of as many...
...peace, as usual, was bought at a price. Nash raised its prices $74 to $90; Packard, $75 to $200. G.M. upped truck prices $10 to $110. Prices in other fields which had been steady for a time were creeping...
...route to Baltimore, he was asked about his Oregon debate with Harold Stassen. Said Dewey: "You know, one man told me that debate was just like a truck driver running over a baby, then deliberately driving forward and backward over the body." Then he added: "Of course, that's a little exaggerated...
Dwight P. Griswold, aid-to-Greece chief, and wife Erma each had a collection of slight cuts & bruises after a truck hit their auto in Athens...