Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking silhouette. Its leaders claimed that it was purely defensive, would never act save in self-defense or when called upon by the government. But Avanguardisti "eyes" were in every important factory, including the Communist-thronged industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni. Boasted an A.C. member: "No hostile truck leaves Sesto without the Catholics in Milan being alerted...
Locked Stable. In Monterey, Calif., Deley Brown borrowed a car, wrecked it, borrowed a truck to tow the wrecked car away, wrecked the truck, climbed out of the wreckage and tore up his driver's license...
Some fell prey to a great, dull hopelessness. In Manhattan's garment district, where it often takes 15 minutes to go a block through trucks, cabs and darting pushcarts, a taxi driver said: "We're beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender...
...afraid of the champ. At 33, the battle-scarred Negro, who looked like Jack Benny's Rochester, had seen so many ups & downs that one more wouldn't hurt, either way. He had quit the ring several times. In those intervals he had driven an ice truck, mixed cement, gone on relief at $9.50 a week to support his wife and six kids. But once he got a chance to fight Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott (his unferocious real name was Arnold Raymond Cream*) went about his preparations thoroughly. He studied movies of Louis' fights, like a football...
...Egypt's Ministry of Public Health satisfied itself that a cholera vibrio could exist no more than three hours on a diet of TIME - or any other periodical. This fact was duly spread by the Egyptian press, and TIME continued to move over the Egyptian border by special truck - giving the vibrios plenty of time to expire...