Word: wagoneer
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...kind of environment, for which nothing had prepared them, they staked their lives on a future that might bear fruit only for their children. The chronicles tell of countless men and women who were far from impetuous and headlong, farther still from resigned, as they pushed their creaking wagon trains over mountains and across blazing deserts-forced back by Indians, or sickness, or starvation, but gathering strength again to return and press...
Although a few speculators had already introduced metal tokens into a few Nevada houses-notably Spark's Nugget and Lake Tahoe's Wagon Wheel -Segel's tokens (usually nickel alloy) began rolling around the state like tumbleweed, are now being shoved into the slots of one-armed bandits in 50 of the state's 70 gambling houses. For the operators, it means more than nostalgia. The coins have proved a source of revenue. Customers have taken such a shine to tokens that instead of cashing them in for a dollar upon leaving, they have begun...
...waving horsemen who offered gifts of bread and salt, past thatch-roofed villages painted sky blue and sienna, past gargantuan collective farms and gleaming new factories. Geese hissed, dogs barked, and Ceausescu listened to gripes. Sometimes speaking from a stack of concrete blocks, sometimes from the back of a wagon, he pressed home again and again a message more familiar to Western audiences than to Communists: "We are moving now; we want your help in building a better Rumania...
...they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children. By that standard, several million Americans would have to give up their kids. I don't drive a hay wagon, I don't go to church on Sunday, I don't grow corn in my backyard, and I've never voted for McKinley. This, in the eyes of Iowa, makes me a bohemian...
...controlling interest in Hyatt-and let Junior run the company. Within six months, Hyatt began to show profits. Within 17 years, profits had mounted to $4,000,000 a year-mostly because Sloan had persuaded Detroit's fledgling automakers that they ought to substitute bearings for the wagon grease they had been using to lubricate axles and transmissions...