Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Economic detente with the Soviets has spawned consumer-oriented ventures as well. For the past two weeks, Muscovites have been lining up to buy slices of the first American pizza in the Soviet Union, for 1.25 rubles ($2.10) each at the AstroPizza truck that makes stops around the city. The 18-ft. mobile pizzeria is operated under a joint venture of New Jersey-based Roma Food Enterprises (1987 sales: $100 million) and the City of Moscow...
...Harvard and Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth, Cornell and Penn, Brown and Columbia can fight hard-fought, close-fought battles, the league is where it should be, administrators say. No matter that Harvard played Miami it would lose by a truck-load of touchdowns. No matter that if Princeton played Oklahoma, its entire team would be carted off the field in a jumbo-sized ambulance...
Mostly, the players are women. Older, with bifocals resting low on their nose and a cigarette dangling from their lips. Working women of a certain type. They may have waitressed a bit at a truck stop, saved their money and bought a little beauty parlor at the end of town. And when their husband died or ran off with their young manicurist, they took to knitting for a while, or crocheting, or painting ceramic plates by number until their home was overflowing with all that stuff, and they were still lonely, until they discovered bingo. A perfect way to pass...
...Whatever happens tonight, that's fine with me," Cruz remarked while they were waiting. "Three hundred and sixty-five days of the year I'm plain old Steve Cruz, the guy who drives his truck up to construction sites. But tonight I'm going to be the One and Only Steve Cruz, Live at the Apollo. Winning would be nice, but being out there and singing, that's good enough...
Negotiators from the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Cyprus government had gone to the airliner earlier in the day. A fuel truck flanked by ambulances drove...