Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Factories are shut: there is no fuel to run machines, no raw materials to process. Harvests rot in the fields for want of distribution. We see no cars and few buses on the broad boulevards; people travel by bicycle, horse and buggy, or crammed aboard the occasional flatbed truck. There are swizzle sticks but no soap; no toilet paper, no plain paper either. By day a pall of smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants...
Speaking almost inaudibly, Urciuoli eventuallyrecounted how he had looked out the window as heset up for a special Law School event and at thatpoint saw Perry and Auterio each carry a watercooler to Auterio's red pick-up truck...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Baghdad Cafe" at 5:30 p.m.Baghdad is a desolate truck stop, suspended in adusty limbo somewhere between Hollywood and LasVegas...
Across from a small, grassy park dedicated to Greek and Irish immigrants, Joe Cogliano, whose grandparents were Italian, sells mangoes to Hispanic customers from the back of his truck. Children play tag while chattering in Spanish on O'Brien Terrace, part of a housing project built in 1939 for Irish laborers. The pungent odor of Vietnamese fish sauce fills a Southeast Asian restaurant where Giavis' Greek grocery once thrived for more than 70 years...
...past six months, ever since he arrived in L.A., Luis M., 36, has taken his morning nourishment at the soup kitchen and then wandered over to a street corner in the garment district, where a strong back can earn around $20 a day. "A guy will come in a truck and say he needs one or two workers, and everyone rushes to him," he explains...