Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though most West Coast fruit and vegetables are shipped East for sale either by truck or refrigerated rail car, some perishables, like plant-ripened strawberries, must be moved by plane. Last week California growers were shipping 400,000 lbs. of the fruit daily by air with no difficulty. Says Herbert Baum, president of Naturipe Berry Growers Inc., one of the state's largest agricultural cooperatives: "We had expected serious problems, but so far we have not been affected. We are quite surprised...
...wife that I was in a safe area in Viet Nam, just putting in my time What did she know about Mang Yang Pass, halfway between insanity and hell? A few weeks after I returned to the "real world," we went to a friend's wedding. A truck backfired. I reacted instinctively. My understanding wife couldn't quite comprehend what I was doing cringing in the gutter, rolled up next to a parked car on New York City's Third Avenue. I should have told her. I should have told the whole damn world...
...angry Tin began tearing down his rival's posters. Enraged, Thongyu shouted at Tin. The two men then agreed to settle the matter with a fistfight and departed in clattering bottle trucks for a field near by. On the way, though, Tin pulled his truck alongside Thongyu's and, according to witnesses, blasted him with a shotgun. Thongyu was left dead at his wheel; Tin disappeared...
...truck driver, and the next time I'm stopped by a CHiP officer, I only hope it is Erik Estrada and not the real thing...
DIED. Harry Chapin, 38, folk-rock singer and composer whose poignant, bittersweet ballads about dashed dreams and broken promises included the hits Taxi (1972), W.O.L.D. (1974) and The Cat's in the Cradle (1974); of injuries received when his car was struck by a trailer truck; in Jericho, N.Y. The son of Big Band Drummer James Chapin, he performed for a while during the '60s with a group whose other members were his father and Brothers Tom and Stephen. A social activist and crusader against world hunger, Chapin often organized and appeared in benefit concerts for environmental issues...