Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buckets--for nothing. People are desperately scrounging for wild grasses, roots, bark--anything to supplement government rations as low as 12 spoonfuls of grain a day. In one village on the eastern coast, a rice-processing mill has no rice, so it is making noodles from seaweed. Every tractor, truck, wagon and ox-cart has been mobilized to distribute food aid as it comes in. Still, the pain is spreading across this country of 24 million as unremitting hunger stalks the land. Li Han, a Chinese truck driver who crosses the frontier regularly at Guchengli, has watched it. "People over...
...Woolworth stores, America's icons, are closing [BUSINESS, July 28]? Oh, no! So many memories for me and my family. Great Aunt Cora introduced me to Woolworth's in Los Angeles when I was four. Thereafter, Woolworth's, except for the demands of the ice-cream truck, captured my weekly allowance. Christmas shopping was a magnificent, looked-forward-to event, carefully planned and executed at Woolworth's every Christmastime throughout my childhood. Mine were always the best presents--or so I thought. Then, just last year, my daughter told me that she had gone to Woolworth's for the lipsticks...
...could. Jerald Jackson, who is named on the birth certificate as Autumn's father, claims he is her real dad. Jackson, a convicted felon who is now a truck driver and born-again Christian, says he and Autumn's mother, Shawn Upshaw, had a relationship while she was a prostitute. (Upshaw "categorically denies" that she ever worked as a prostitute, says her attorney, Wanda Akin.) "We really cared about one another, and Autumn was supposed to symbolize that," Jackson told TIME. "I don't just believe I am the father. I know I am the father...
...short, tough speech patterns of workers in the car industry. "In the world of automotive head lamps," Walton writes, "you had your forces of light and your forces of darkness, that was how Kim Peterson saw it. And Peterson was a light force. He liked bright head lamps....Truck head lamps were his idea of great lamps...
...pharmaceutical giant Bergen Brunswig and from 1970 to '72 was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Similar figures fill the church's upper management: Tony Burns, a "stake president" (the rough equivalent of an archbishop), is chairman of Miami-based Ryder Systems, the truck-rental empire...