Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, Cleary's doorbell went "Ding,dong" and there stood Kevan Melrose, a 5-ft.,10-in., 205-lb. transfer from North Dakota.Melrose makes a Mack Truck look like a Tonka...
...caravan rolls. A pair of fuel trucks, a Ryder rent-a- truck with a family in the cab and its Pontiac dragging behind, a double freight truck, half a peripatetic house marked WIDE LOAD (for shallow living) pass and pass again in symbiotic progression. They finally fetch up -- without a sign of recognition from the drivers who have traveled for hours more or less together -- in the lee of an aptly named roadside restaurant called Huddle. "Lady," snarls the gas-station owner, "don't you ever clean your headlights with a squeegee. Stuff gets in it, and the next...
Somewhere south of Fredericksburg, Va., exhaustion obliterates caution. Turn off into a mercury-lit nightmare. Motels, shopping strips and truck stops lie scattered on the landscape. Out of the chaos of blinking signs and curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to meet a wistful marketing illusion, something between motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers...
...sense immediately that circumstances are going to make them strange bedfellows in a motel hell. You know, too, that much worse will follow as this misalliance uses all the modes of transportation specified in the title (plus such unnamed delights as a farm truck, a refrigerator truck and a bus that grinds to an unpleasant halt) in the desperate effort to get home. We are also aware of two agreeable things about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances...
When a Jeep Cherokee or a pickup truck with smoked windows approaches the main gate of the University of El Salvador, some students instinctively dart for cover. Though such vehicles are common in El Salvador's capital, they have gained notoriety as the favored conveyance of right-wing death squads, and occasionally spray the campus with anonymous gunfire. Two months ago the head of the university's employees' union was shoved into a black-windowed truck. He has not been seen since...