Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not rise for almost three hours, but already the line has begun to form in front of the austere, dimly lit shop. A panel truck pulls up to the rear entrance, and two burly workers, their white smocks spattered with red stains, deliver their precious cargo: a day's supply of meat. Within three hours, the choicest cuts-pork chops, ham, boneless beef-will be gone. The late arrivals will have to make do with sausage, soup bones or chicken. Or perhaps nothing...
...subject of debate among high officials in Israel. Its authorship is unclear-for quite plausible reasons. So deep are the animosities involved that the Israelis might reject out of hand any proposal made by the Palestine Liberation Organization or its Syrian allies; the Palestinians and Syrians will have no truck with anything that originates in Jerusalem. Israeli sources claimed that the plan had been proposed by Philip Habib, the special U.S. envoy to the Middle East. American diplomats insist that the U.S. has not put forward a comprehensive proposal. As outlined by Israeli officials, perhaps as a trial balloon they...
...ANGRY truck driver unloads his cargo, slams his door, and screams at the camera, "If the Democrats are so good for working people, why are there so many people out of work? You can be sure I'll vote Republican this year." The political advertisement showed the frustration among American workers with President Carter and the liberal ideals that governed American policy-making for nearly a half-century. Polls indicate that as much as one-half of the nation's blue-collar voters supported Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, giving this longstanding foe of organized labor a lopsided electoral...
...trip from the Pacific Northwest to the oilfields around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. Once a year, for up to six weeks, the Arctic ice pack crumbles away from the Alaskan coast, giving the oil companies their only chance to transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was threatened. This year Atlantic Richfield's Arco unit is relying on the convoy to deliver machinery needed to begin...
...scheme. Joel Smith, who runs an alligator farm near Gainesville, Fla., packed 120 of the reptiles, from 1 ft. to 10 ft. long, into burlap-lined wooden crates and sent them off on an El Al jet. After arriving, one nosed its way out of its crate in a truck en route to the Golan Heights and fell onto the road, but was corralled by some intrepid journalists in the convoy...