Word: u-haul
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...horror-movie reject with a smiling baseball for a head, cleverly named Mr. Met. When a Met hits a home run, a sizable, but not actually big, apple bobs up from something that looks like a magician's hat. The stadium opens in centerfield to display a huge, distant U-Haul sign. Airplanes from neighboring La Guardia Airport fly overhead every other inning. Then there is a poor approximation of fireworks that I'm pretty sure is actually just two kids tossing up bottle rockets and running away. Two kids who very well may be doing it to prevent...
...vehicle on which I had performed any kind of maintenance work. I drove very slowly at first, quite convinced that my bicycle wheel would in all likelihood fall off. As I eased back into the evening traffic, I found solace in following a VW van trying to pull a U-Haul up the mountain. My mind began to wander again and I thought about all the things that Harvard hasn't taught...
...mother was trying to make a new start. She had a solid job at U-Haul and a duplex in a middle-class neighborhood. She recently told B.J.'s father that she "was finally getting somewhere in life." Patrolmen watched her place last year for a few days, but police say she called them off. It was intrusive and, she reportedly said, conspicuous. In the icy clime of Bridgeport, the coldest truth about these murders may be that there was little that could have been done to prevent them...
...whale's odyssey began when the one-week-old J.J. was found rolling in the surf near Los Angeles in January 1997, sick and emaciated (a mere 1,670 lbs.). Lifeguards and beachgoers loaded her into a U-Haul truck and drove her 120 miles to Sea World. She arrived comatose, but within days perked up and began gaining 2 lbs. an hour. She dined at first on a baby formula of cream mixed with mushed-up herring and vitamins--sort of a whale version of New England clam chowder--and later switched to bottom feeding on a diet...
...second, more disturbing issue is a pervasive sense of fear that has overtaken our everyday lives. In the wake of national tragedies and terrorist scares, it no longer seems unreasonable to see terrorists lurking inside every U-Haul truck. The most lasting legacy of the Oklahoma bombing and last summer's TWA explosion over the New York skyline is a deep feeling of vulnerability and a heightened desire for caution. In this environment, every suspicious person is a threat and every credible threat must be dealt with seriously...