Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the nation's superhighways were eerily silent last week as the big 18-wheel diesel rigs ceased to roar. Occasionally there were other sounds: voices raised in anger, the thud of punches, and the crack of rifles sending bullets through the sides of trucks, shattering windshields, and sometimes hitting human flesh. Most of the nation's 100,000 independent, long-haul truckers were striking in protest against the rising cost (up 35% since the beginning of the year) and increasing scarcity of diesel fuel. Some merely stopped working. Others used their trucks to block access...
...that airplane mechanics must meet federal license requirements that are in some ways tougher than those for pilots. A weekend light-plane flyer needs only a minimum of 35 hours' flight experience before taking the test for his federal pilot's license. Even to replace a wheel, legally, on a single-engine plane, a mechanic needs a Federal Aviation Administration airframe and power plant rating (known as an "A&P"), which requires a minimum of 18 months' training...
Unfortunately the rockabilly energy level dies down for side two, and Gordon resorts to a series of flaccid slow ballads--"It's Only Make Believe," "Wheel of Fortune," "I Just Met a Memory," and "Blue Christmas." It's well-known that slow numbers are totally worthless, except for high school kids who need a cheap feel at the dance Saturday night to get them through the week. Today's high schools are too busy playing the Bee Gees and Donna Summer to waste time on Robert Gordon...
...been doing in the computer industry since 1974, when the first round of discovery ended. But Barr contended that since the case started, the Government has brought in a whole new team of lawyers, who had to educate themselves. Scoffed Barr: "This is a continuous reinvention of the wheel...
With midfielder Pete Predun leadiing the returning members of the wheel chair corps, Harvard picked up after a slow start, drilling six straight goals in the second half, to take the contest...