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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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MUSIC BOUNCES THROUGH Rockers like an old truck on the backroads of Jamaica, an unfaltering reggae rhythm riding over the rocks and potholes of life in Kingston. The jangling beat never stops, fighting for acceptance with as much persistence as the Rastas who sing and play...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Soothing the Savage Beast | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

...Agua Prieta to seek work in Arizona. The trio-Manuel Garcia, Bernabe Herrera and Eleazar Ruelas-slipped across the border and soon stopped to refill their water jug on land leased by the Hanigans. A man, later identified by the Mexicans as Thomas Hanigan, drove by in a pickup truck and yelled out, "Hey, wetbacks, where are you going? Are you going to steal or rob?" Hanigan allegedly forced the Mexicans into his truck at gunpoint and then summoned his father George, 67, and brother Patrick, who accused the Mexicans of robbing his trailer home the previous month. The Hanigans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Torture Trial in Tucson | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Tempers shortened and productivity fell. In Houston, where 92% of the buildings are air-conditioned, the demand for electricity reached record heights. In Dallas a woman walked up to a truck loaded with ice and, without a word to the driver, climbed in and lay down on the cargo. Many businessmen gave up wearing suit coats and switched to guayaberas-loose-fitting, Mexican-style shirts. At Fort Chaffee, Ark., trucks carried ice water to the military policemen assigned to the Cuban refugee camps. Even so, a dozen MPs became ill. (None of the Cubans, used to heat, were hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Too Much Sun in the Sunbelt | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

Down at the truck stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...country tune perspective. She grew up in the hills of east-central Pennsylvania, on the fringes of the mining belt. Her father was a guide on a hunting preserve ("He was a good shot. I grew up eating venison"). Her mother, trained as a beautician, worked counters at local truck stops. During long evenings at home, her father played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and her mother sang while she and her younger sister Randy sat back at the kitchen table and listened. "It was strictly country," she says. "I loved the songs more than the singing. Country music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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