Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there McGuane is still a marvelous writer: "The huge cottonwoods along the river had turned purest yellow, and since no wind had come up to disturb the dying leaves, the great trees stood in chandelier brilliance along the watercourses that veined the hills. Joe had to stop the truck to try to take in all this light...
...last Thursday, the yellow school bus was bound for schools in Mission, Texas. Approaching at a crossroads was a soft-drink delivery truck. The truck and bus suddenly collided, and the bus veered into a gravel pit filled with water 20 ft. deep...
...National Guardsmen ; apparently joined in, carting off garbage bags full of booty. British tourist Simon Schiller said he watched while a St. Croix policeman drove straight through the center of the violence in Christiansted with a brand-new refrigerator, still in its carton, in the back of his truck. To add to the chaos, when the hurricane buffeted a local prison, 200 inmates escaped and joined the free...
...Hampshire town to say this. "Thanks," I tell her modestly, wondering if it would be all right to twirl my mustache. I borrowed this Mazda MX-5 Miata three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent...
...deer hunt provides a change from the routine hazards of farming. Accompanying Bauer and his friends is an anonymous character known as "the city man" -- almost certainly Rhodes himself -- who accidently discharges his rifle. The bullet passes through the windshield of a truck and the crown of the driver's cap before channeling into the roof of the cab. It is a chilling moment, one in which to give thanks for a tragedy luckily averted and thanks that Rhodes was not similarly careless when reporting on the atom bomb...