Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always imagined "hitting the wall" would be something like getting hit head-on by an oncoming truck. Well, it's not. An almost imperceptible pain begins to grow into an overwhelming, gnawing numbness--an exhaustion beyond words. We both realized that if we stopped, even for a minute, to stretch we'd never start running again. So stopping was out of the question. Just dogged determination, numbness and black thoughts all the way to the seemingly ever-receding Prudential Building...
From the instant of Columbia's touchdown, a moment watched by tens of millions of television viewers in the U.S. and perhaps hundreds of millions more round the world, Americans seemed to go into orbit themselves. "Terrific!" shouted Dennis O'Connell, a truck driver from Queens, N.Y., as he paused in a Manhattan pub to watch the landing. "It shows everybody we're still No. 1." Mrs. Alicia Hoerter, a Louisville grandmother, could barely contain her excitement or her puns. "Columbia, the gem of a notion!" she exulted. "First, it's a rocket, then...
...projects as the joint European-American mission over the poles of the sun and the once-in-a-lifetime probe of Halley's comet. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, long a foe, noted, "I've never seen so much hype in my life. We're launching a truck into space, and everybody keeps saying it's the Second Coming...
...state legislature in Oklahoma is now considering measures to curb the thefts, including a law allowing police to halt oil tanker trucks on the highways and demand to see papers that prove the origin of the load. Meanwhile, several oil firms have engaged an outfit called Oilfield Security Patrol Inc. to keep heavy guard over their well sites. Company President Jack Gibson, an ex-policeman, is afraid that curbing the thievery could get rough. Says he: "When a guy is sitting there with $8,000 worth of hot oil in his truck, he is not going to let someone talk...
...black man because of hair samples found on seven of the victims, Commissioner Brown hastened to deny the report. Dozens of publications reported that police in East Fishkill, N.Y., had arrested a black ex-convict who allegedly had abducted a nine-year-old boy and driven off in a truck with Georgia license plates. On the CBS Evening News, Anchorman Dan Rather detailed the arrest, linked it to Atlanta and did not until the last sentences of his minute-long report disclose to his viewers that authorities had decided the man could not have had anything to do with...