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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helm of his simple shop as it bustles with activity two days before Thanksgiving, with customers popping in to pick up their holiday bird and employees unloading a truck and weighing turkeys in the back of the store...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkey Day Brings Business to Savenor's | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...survived a more problematical journey west, struggle much more realistically for survival in Tumbleweeds. Mary Jo is fleeing an abusive marriage (her fourth), but can't quite escape her taste for sexy, damaged guys. In a film that moves with an easy, unforced pace, she settles in with a truck driver (played by director and co-writer Gavin O'Connor) who's good in bed but damply insistent on clockwork routine outside it. She has a job that matches her relationship--too much filing--and a daughter who fills her good-to-bursting heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Travels with Mommy | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...like us," Chaparro says. "They thought we were doing this to get dates." The boys on the team weren't wild about it initially either. "We thought they were trying to make us look silly," says middle linebacker Roger Sepulveda, 16. But Sepulveda, who hits like a truck, once knocked Macias out of her shoes. "And she just popped right up," he says admiringly. "I see the girls as a little better than some of the guys on the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fullback Picks Her Gown | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Truck driver Xavier Ocampo was charged with a misdemeanor after cracking open a roasted peanut at a Lincoln, Neb., grocery store. The nut was worth about a penny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Petty Crime | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Suddenly the psycho-esque beeping of an oncoming truck increased, and the last truck of the day pulled into make its final deposit. He pushed a button and the back of his truck went up with a swoosh. Tilting back, the truck purged its contents of splintered wood, three legged metal grade school desks, tattered sofa cushions and a myriad of dark tied trash bags. Returning itself to its normal position, the truck pulled away and the few remaining men began to disperse back out into the parking lot where their own pick up trucks awaited them...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Down in the Dump | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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