Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George came in from Verdella Tuesday evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...
Outside Philadelphia's Shibe Park last week, a newspaper delivery truck screeched to a stop. The driver dumped his papers and grinned, "What's going on around here, a World Series?" He knew the answer, and so did nearly everybody else in Philadelphia: the team that had been moribund for 28 years,* and in eighth place in the National League for seven out of eight years, was suddenly the livest thing in baseball...
...Production of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, gas-ranges, shoes, men's suits, automobile tires, was at prewar or above. Production of refrigerators and electric ranges was better than 60% of prewar. ¶ Automobile and truck production was up to 65,000 units a week (half of 1941). Steel production was up to 87.2% of capacity. The end of the number one shortage, copper, was in sight...
...eight years after the Civil War, the Judkinses would have no truck with the Union. They spent those eight years in Brazil. Many a U.S. broadcaster wishes they had stayed there...
Since last summer, flies have had no truck with 240 shops of the big British chain, Marks and Spencer; Dr. Hurst's spot-painting did the trick (one store which he treated only once, on August 22, 1945, has not had a fly since...