Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another corner of the city, a loud pickup truck comes to a hault, the engine still running. From the truck's back, a large German Shepard leaps out, a thick piece of wood between his teeth. The driver checks the frontdoor of one of his client's homes and calls Dusty back to his place. In the background, almost incidentally, Tom's rendering of a quieter street in a colder season, looks...
...soil. While some Dominicans land in Puerto Rico, others travel to the continental U.S., ( especially New York City. The going rate for a no-frills, no-guarantees trip across the Mona Passage is as high as $1,000. More deluxe trips, complete with falsified documents and a truck ride to San Juan, can cost thousands of dollars...
...reluctant to discuss the details of her splintered childhood. Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in 1942 in St. Joseph, Mo. Her father Paul Gregory, a serviceman and flight controller, and her mother divorced shortly after the end of World War II. Her mother later married Raymond Hite, a truck driver, who legally adopted her. After 2 1/2 years that marriage dissolved. Throughout the turmoil, Shere (short for Shirley) lived on and off with her grandparents, who, after a 30-year marriage, also divorced. Her grandfather, Alexander Hurt, acted as a surrogate father, although Shere remembers that...
Unlike the car, truck and bus, the bike does not spew stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
...claim to be protecting him and, having made his escape, reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch for the first time with the masses he claims to represent. He also finds himself increasingly, and in every way, in the dark...