Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on the board. We clap...
Inning six, Boise: Two kids are picked from the crowd to have a race in toy motorized trucks. The announcer says "Go!" before the little girl is all the way in her truck. Loud, sustained booing ensues. The announcer says both will go to the finals in August. There is some light applause, mostly ominous silence. The Hawks score six or so runs...
...baby-sitting job. Instead, she met up with her boyfriend Michael Carter and their close friends Dustin Kaiser and Mike Tester. For Nicole and Carter, it was a reunion of sorts. For two weeks, Carter had been holed up in a juvenile-detention center for taking the truck of his mother's live-in boyfriend, among other things. Nicole had written him every day and filled the void of his absence by spending days with his mother. Carter upped the ante by escaping the juvenile center and hiding out at friends' homes to be with Nicole. "I was excited because...
...Growing up, I knew my father as a truck driver and professional boxer," Salvatore Gigante, 43, says outside the courtroom. "We don't know anything about this other stuff, but we're holding up through the lies." After lunch one day, Salvatore ordered a nice schnapps with his coffee to go. "This is the one joy I have right now, that I take a little zip of Sambuca with my coffee," he said...
...arms around his neck after riding him in an indoor arena at the stable in Del Mar, Calif., a few miles from the house she has just bought outside San Diego. She'd like to take him on the road. "If Neil Young can go out with a truck full of Harleys, I can have a horse trailer. I'm sure country acts do." She pauses at that last sentence, as if caught in an indiscretion. But she goes on and on, about horses and many other things. "Horseback riding is the most natural thing in my blood--that...