Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical patient starts with memory problems and then deteriorates into more general confusion. A truck driver may keep delivering things to the wrong place, or a bookkeeper may not be keeping the books right anymore. Motor skills are usually retained longer, although certain patients will have difficulty early on with tasks like using a screwdriver or tying shoelaces...
...motley convoy stops before the small town of Altun Kupri, 25 miles from Kirkuk, and everyone jumps out. A truck with a flat tire zooms by from the direction of the city carrying wounded. One can smell the odor of burned flesh as it passes. As the twilight gathers, Abdul Rahman Aju Ali, 54, a barrel- shaped man with fierce eyes, explains, "We will attack at night...
...building is also trashed and gaping with shell holes. No one knows what is going on, but everyone is catching fright, which soon sweeps the city as it is doing in all the other towns. On a street corner, Kurds have a snowball fight with snow out of a truck brought down from the mountains for drinking water. A young girl wandering in a yard hands the visitor a message. "For my brother in London, Ontario, Canada," she says. "Tell my brother Narwan we are very well...
...understand what Mr. Majors' esophagus might have to do with the error on Schedule E of my return." I went on to explain that, lest this turn into some sort of nightmare in which I awoke one day to find my home being loaded onto a truck, & I was enclosing the disputed amount due, plus interest -- but that I'd still appreciate knowing, at their convenience, what the alleged error was on my Schedule E. I knew that if I turned out not to owe the money, I'd eventually get it back with interest...
Rachel and John are typical of the families the clinic serves. John worked part-time cutting firewood or driving a coal truck. The couple subsisted on food stamps, supplemented by the generosity of neighbors who often invited them over for dinner. Though the clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched...