Word: truckful
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...group leaned forward eagerly in their seats, raising their hands to be called on in the pseudo-conversation, Kristof casually reclined in his chair at the head of the room. Smiling, he spoke of one particularly terrifying instance, recalling, “Once, we had a truck of soldiers chasing us down a road in the jungle for an entire week until we reached Uganda. Then, to top it all off, I got malaria...
...Reality differed from Humphreys' expectations. His arrival in Bindoon, a small town in Western Australia, marked the end of his formal education. By 14, he was driving a truck to collect rocks and sand for a construction site where he and other child-migrant laborers were working. They were under the control of the Christian Brothers, an international Catholic congregation who are today notorious for their record of physically and sexually abusing orphans. "[The Brothers] were not afraid to use a belt. They wore these black robes that had a pocket on the inside - like a holster," remembers Humphreys...
...efforts to legalize it have gotten snared in legislative gridlock. Torres argues, however, that the rules are ambiguous and that international labor laws recognize sex work as legitimate employment. Further, prostitution zones have long been tolerated along some parts of the Mexico-U.S. border, providing havens for gringo truck drivers and young Texans looking to lose their virginity...
When did you realize the book was taking off? I was driving from Mississippi to Atlanta with some friends of mine and there was this tornado that literally tore across the highway. We had to pull over, so we went to this truck stop and were drinking beers when [my publisher] Amy Einhorn called me and said, "You're on the New York Times best-seller list." I thought the best-seller list was just 1 through 10; I didn't realize it was so extensive. I think we landed at No. 16 or so. And then we were...
...that if you are going to show something in the international market, it should be international with your own regional flavor. That's what the real buyer is looking for." At Milan, his busy and brightly patterned dresses - culled from the clothes of the Baluch tribes and vivid Pakistani truck art - he says evoked instant cries of "Bellissimo, bellissimo...