| When Hyundai Motor Co. first arrived in the U.S., 19 years ago, it was best known for rattletrap econoboxes. |
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| The car was a rattletrap, and when we slowed down, dust would Come boiling in, even with the windows shut. |
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| I slowed my rattletrap to a halt in front of the garage, half expecting Diane to be standing on the porch, holding little Dorothy in her arms. |
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| Bouncing toward home in our old rattletrap truck, I felt not just happy but satisfied, already intuiting that time spent on a riverbank is not wasted. |
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| All services for the biggest embassy in the world will operate independently from the rattletrap utilities of the Iraqi capital. |
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| Mom always worried about our safety in my friend's rattletrap. I told her not to worry, as it can't go fast enough to be dangerous. |
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| And for ordinary citizens, getting hold of even the worst rattletrap involved many years of waiting. Even good cars fare poorly in Russia's climate. |
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| On Election Day, I rode the ferry across the brown waters of the Irrawaddy and then took a rattletrap taxi to the river-delta township of Kawhmu, to watch Suu Kyi visit polling booths in her district. |
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| It is my perfect old rattletrap, but, since it expresses a truth, I expect every person coming in contact with this work to identify it as their very own. |
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