Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murrin, a truck driver who has been without steady work for nearly a year, lives near McKee. Despite his job problems, he is sticking with Carter "even though he loused up the economy." Says Murrin: "I think the presidency is overrated. It's like a quarterback who gets all the glory but without the rest of the team...
...would have noticed the trouble in time to prevent last year's debacle. But the dean saw only the veneer: Olive was increasing subscriptions, he seemed dedicated, complaints were sporadic. True, Olive's responsibilities stretched the manager thin--aside from his administrative and academic duties. Olive used his own truck to drop papers off at delivery sites every morning at 5 a.m. But the Times official did not appear concerned; he and Olive got along well...
What is the difference between gender identity and sex-role identity? Can a child's sexuality be affected by whether or not Father does the dishes or Mother drives a truck? "Unwittingly, the feuding experts and conflicting experiments testify to the truth: we will never have a Sears catalogue of sex differences because human beings are too diverse for labels and measurements," writes Pogrebin. "For every trait studied, the differences within each sex are greater than the average differences between the two sexes...
...turn to when a hot water pipe bursts in the gameroom at 2 a.m. or when the Toast-R-Oven short-circuits the entire first floor. When they had a Hawaiian party and didn't know what to do with all the sand, he figured out a way to truck it down the block to a tiny tributary of the Charles. To this day, Butt-fucker's Beach lies invitingly under the overpass, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Charles Gate West...
JORDAN, with the presumed consent of its ally Saudi Arabia, openly endorsed the Iraqi cause with offers of military aid, including some forces from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam...