Word: freight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley carries, given the name of the author, some ironic freight: "Graceful prose was never my father's strong suit...
Goffstein is a minimalist, but her text and pictures carry the same emotional freight as William Blake's admonishment to see the world in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour...
Shortly before midnight on Nov. 10, tankers on a 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train, bound from Windsor to Toronto, jumped the tracks. Three explosions from cars carrying propane sent flames that towered into the sky and rattled windows 30 miles away. Firemen at the scene sniffed acrid fumes leaking from one tanker that contained 81 tons of liquefied chlorine; if that car exploded, its contents could turn into a modern equivalent of the deadly fog at Ypres. Within hours, provincial authorities ordered the largest evacuation in Canadian history; with surpassing smoothness, and little panic, most of the city...
...walkout by 546 maintenance workers left 16,000 Boston area commuters looking for other means to travel and affected freight shipments to northern New England cities...
...Hampshire twang. "If a lot more schooners are built, it will be because a lot of people independently came by the same conclusion I did." His conclusion: with fuel now responsible for 40% of the cost of running any engine-driven ship, and the price still rising, freight rates will force merchants to find a cheaper way to haul goods. "Some day," says Ackerman, "there may not be any more fuel-driven trucks or motor ships at any price. But wind is plentiful." Cargo sailboats used to make the run from Maine to South Carolina in as little...