Word: wagoneer
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...Evesham on the River Avon, a respectable British workhorse named Smokey who had long frightened picnickers by stealing and eating their sandwiches also took on sterner ways. A mild-looking animal who pulls the town's garbage wagon from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (with a half-hour break for lunch), Smokey indulged his passion for sandwiches only on Sundays and holidays when he was free to roam on the riverbank; once when a cautious lady picnicker hid her lunch under a coat, Smokey ate both lunch and coat...
...Klaus is the Dutch name for St. Nicholas, a Fourth Century bishop of Myra in Lycia. The patron saint of Russia, and of thieves, and boys & girls, he traditionally championed the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich. In 1941 the pseudo-cultural Ossewa Brand-wag (Ox Wagon) society denounced him as "a foreign importation unsuited to the ideals of the Afrikaners." Possibly because both Santa and Smuts wear white beards and benignity, the O.B. suggested that South African Christmas gifts should be brought by one Oupa (Grandfather) Voortrekker in an ox wagon...
...hitched my wagon to a restless star too early in life to watch the world revolve . . . from a static point," says Hall. In the 1920s he became director of finance to the Persian Government, lived the life of Reilly in a sumptuous villa, explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...
...donated by members). Pledged to help other alcoholics, members do little proselyting, help only when they are called on. Before A.A., all but 5% of alcoholics were considered hopeless. Of A.A.'s members, some 50% never touch a drop after they join; 25% get on the wagon after one or two slips...
...every Alcoholic Anonymous knows, "twelfth-step work" (helping other alcoholics) is one of the most important single factors in keeping members on the wagon. No cure, the A.A. method is effective only as long as a member keeps it up. An A.A. member is in for life. Those who quit usually go back to the bottle...