Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharps & Flats. In Everett, Wash., 30 motorists milled around jabbering darkly about the driver whose truck had dropped that sack of tacks...
Three hook-and-ladder trucks, the fire chief's car, a pumping truck, and an emergency wagon were employed to carry one hose (small size) to the scene of the disaster. Slumbering Puritans, Bellboys, and Bunnies awoke for a half-hour of enjoyable confusion. Nobody had any marshmallows...
...atmosphere of Mukden is charged with a degree and kind of fear that Americans should never experience, and find hard to believe until it infects them also. We toured this depressing city one cold bright morning in a Chinese Army truck. In one street we came upon ten blackening Chinese or Japanese corpses, a fortnight old and partly gnawed by dogs. Grisly as this sight was, it was more easily forgotten than the sight of Mukden's ravished factories...
...General, and then the main tomb, too, was sealed. Outside, history marched past; the splendid city of Tanis fell into ruin; sand drifted over the tomb, and hid it. It lay undisturbed by wars and warriors-Assyrians, Macedonians, Roman legions, the cavalry of the Mamelukes, the sweating, roaring British truck drivers of World...
...sisters on a 250-acre farm near the campus, raised a tobacco crop of her own as a sideline. Dressed in her shabbiest farm clothes ("I figured the poorer I looked, the better price I'd get"), she drove the crop to market in the farm truck, sold her high-quality tobacco at twice the price of ordinary grades...