Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Come again? World War II Army generals would flip in their graves if they could see what has become of the trusty little truck commissioned for $740 apiece in 1941. Who could have foreseen that the military's drab workhorse, the general purpose vehicle -- jeep, for short -- would be reborn 40 years later in electric colors as Cherokees, Broncos, Renegades, Blazers and Samurais and used to cart fashion victims and C.P.A.s up the ramps of suburban parking structures...
...order to cart materials while working as a construction engineer, but she has found that it is equally well suited to her current position as a paralegal and part-time law student. "I can go out, dressed up, to anyplace fancy and not feel like I'm in a truck," she says...
...carrier Ranger, cruising in the Arabian Sea 1,200 miles from Fao. The jets would have to refuel in midair, since the gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are skittish about letting them land on their territory for fear of Iranian reprisal. And because the Silkworms are truck-mounted and mobile, there is no guarantee that the U.S. jets would have anything to bomb once they got there...
...trying to lay something on them," Tom says, as the truck pulls away. "I prefer the backdoor approach. The paintings are meant to say, "Welcome, Welcome." Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that...
Over time, the paintings have had to deal with a variety of obstacles--in addition to theft--that most artists never encounter. Tom shows a slide of one painting, its only remnant clinging to the bottom bolt--a passing truck had crushed...