Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feud in the same region, around the West Virginia-Kentucky line. Now the conflict, involving some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers, is evoking even uglier images. "It's almost like a civil war," said ex-Mayor Robert McCoy of Matewan, W. Va. Hayes West, a nonunion truck driver, was killed and another driver wounded when snipers opened fire on a convoy on Coeburn Mountain in Kentucky; three other drivers have been wounded in similar ambushes...
...real patriot." One day in 1979 he persuaded Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones...
...aircraft factory during the 1970s, would wear sticky-soled shoes to pick up metal filings. When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard, was put to work making the army transports that now convoy Soviet troops over the Afghanistan countryside. Far worse, grinding machines that can craft tiny ballbearings, legally sold to the Soviets by a small Vermont...
Coles stressed the importance of continually trying to build one's moral character and not losing sight of this goal in a viel of in tellectualism. "This doesn't mean we should be the anti-intellectual. We need to keep on truck in' morally...
...been waitressing 40 years, 20 of them in this truck stop. As she talks she polishes the stainless steel, fills mustard jars, adds the menu inserts for today's special (hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, pot of coffee...