Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London squeezed his 200 lbs. into the cockpit of his two-engined, ice-cooled racing car. It was his last chance of the year: the rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over...
Margarita obliged, and was prompty mouse-trapped completely out of the play, leaving Vince a hole big enough to drive a truck through. Brother Bob, on the Crimson bench at the time, tried to deny that the man mouse-trapped was Attilio, but with corroboration by the sports scribes, made like the Arabs...
Meanwhile, at Westminster, Western Maryland, college officials pondered the fate of a doughty band of 27 undergraduates reported about 13 miles east of Hartford and 30 miles from the Massachusetts border. Earlier, four-and possibly five-of the group were eliminated from the northward trek by truck...
These feminine plaints soughed from the microphone when Tory Candidate John Reginald Bevins jumped from his "Voice of the People" sound truck and let the people give tongue. Five minutes later Arthur James Irvine, Labor's six-foot candidate, strode up to the same housewives' queue. While he pumped hands all round, the women cheered and patted his back...
Stones Hurled. Bogotá students made the controversy an occasion for a mass meeting. There were cries of "Down with Yankee Imperialism," "Down with Truman." Then Communists and other U.S.-baiters led the crowd downtown to the U.S. Embassy. A U.S. truck parked outside was overturned, the Embassy was stoned. The mob moved on to Grace Line offices, smashed windows and furniture until police took over...