Word: silverado
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...padded helmet encases my head, and four thick safety belts intersect in a bulbous metal codpiece. As my two-ton Chevy Silverado truck edges toward the starting line, all I can feel is the plastic barf bag stuffed in the pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop...
...family man who neither drinks nor smokes. His principal indulgence is a Porsche Carrera racing car, which he says he has driven at up to 140 m.p.h. He owns a condominium in Hilton Head, S.C., but calls home a new $300,000 house bordering the tenth green at the Silverado Country Club in Napa, Calif. He met his wife Linda while attending Brigham Young University on a golf scholarship, and says that he prefers weekends at home with her and their three children to the grind of the tour...
...grooving to a pulsating rock number like For the Love of Money recorded by the O'Jays ("Music is a psychiatrist for me. When I turn up the volume, I escape into a peaceful inner world. I split from reality"). This particular evening he heads toward the exclusive Silverado Country Club in Napa to address a group of automobile dealers, one of whom lends Jackson a new Pontiac Grand Prix every year. As Jackson swings his car past the long line of Cadillacs and Mercedeses ringing the driveway at Silverado, he mutters, "The only niggers out here...
...Columbia's School of Business. Walker, who is in his office by 7:30 a.m. and takes home only a half-hour's work, likes to operate his company informally; he even answers his own telephone. Twice a year he huddles with a dozen top officers at Silverado, a company-owned resort in California's Napa Valley, for a free-swinging critique of operations, a management device that Walker claims stimulates his executives...