Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...archeologists loudly protested. The government relented, told the aroused historians that they could study findings on the spot, remove what they could. They descended like locusts, got in the workmen's way, spent hours and days photographing, sketching, and removing treasures of the past. Said a cigar-chewing truck driver: "I don't understand why these people make such a fuss ... It keeps my truck waiting hours...
...chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck or jeep, jolted and jounced over miles of cattle trails to the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital...
...strike's third fatality. The others: a Chicago striker run down by a truck which he tried to stop at the picket line; an East St. Louis picket, shot by a non-striker...
...Cascade Locks, where Mayor Russel Nichols, a Dewey rooter, had arranged a turnout for his man. But Dewey arrived to find that Harold Stassen had boldly stolen his meeting. Stassen was busily autographing campaign leaflets. Newsreel cameramen, hoping for shots of the candidates together, had backed a truck across the road to make sure that Dewey would stop...
...Dewey bus approached cautiously. Then, on orders from Dewey, it squeezed through between curb and truck and zoomed on past as the disappointed crowd booed. Mayor Nichols ripped the Dewey button from his lapel and replaced it with two Stassen buttons. "This burns me up," he declaimed. "Dewey was pretty small." Gloated Stassen: "Many interesting things have happened on the old Oregon Trail." One interesting fact: the odds on the primary results had dropped from 2-1 in Stassen's favor to even money...