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...book represents a diagnostician's exhaustive checkup of his new community, in which he finds as many hidden fears and lesions as in any of his patients. He meets a preacher who has "penile, rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea." He hears of macho truck drivers who have quick liaisons with men because they don't charge, and he learns of married men in church making dates with the gay men they know. Most of all he listens with sympathy to the woman who begs him to keep her son's disease a secret so she won't have to endure "faggot...
...other words, they perform the neat psychological function of persuading baby boomers that reaching middle age has not turned them into grownups. "They don't carry the same label of suburban domesticity as our vans do," says Chrysler vice president Bernard Robertson, general manager of the company's light truck and Jeep division. "We get letters all the time saying, 'I've got a Mercedes or BMW, but I always drive the Jeep...
...unusually stubborn men from Texas -- one rich, the other never quite sure of having gas money or whether his truck's head gasket will last till the next interstate exit -- are locked in a battle over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber...
Humboldt is a region of hardscrabble logging towns along Highway 101 on the foggy coast of northern California. Here it is still possible to see a big truck grinding toward the Pacific Lumber mill at Scotia with a single, monstrous redwood log, 15 ft. in diameter. A tree that can produce logs this size is worth upwards...
...Here is Thron, a sturdy, straightforward fellow who looks like one of those happy, hey-no-prob guys in the beer commercials. But he's an activist who gave up his senior year at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, to rumble around the country in a beat-up truck, presenting some 80 slide shows of his logging photos to environmental groups. It's all in support of a bill now in Congress, the Headwaters Forest Act, that would preserve most of the remaining old-growth redwood groves, which contain trees that have survived uncut, some of them, since before...