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...offers, insincerely, to drop by for a chat later. His American counterparts make a brief appearance later in the day, side arms strapped to their thighs gunslinger style, and drive up to the headquarters of the local military commander, a 30-year-old general named Jawhari, on four-wheel, all-terrain scooters. They prove equally elusive...
...After a trip to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad a month ago, the portly, mule-jawed Sherzai came back to the southern Pakistani city of Quetta throwing around cash. Merchants say he bought himself over 30 new four-wheel vehicles and then set off to an Afghan refugee colony called Jungle Piralzai known for its thieves and opium smugglers. As one associate of Sherkzai's admitted: "Of course, these men are bandits." There, he recruited men for 15,000 rupees ($250 a month), and outfitted them with weapons and at least 40 kilos of hashish, according to this associate...
...trip by helicopter and four-wheel drive from the northeast border to this hill town, 5,250 ft. above sea level and 38 miles from Kabul, displays the country in all its harsh beauty. The helicopter makes its way between mountains, not above them, a few dozen feet above the lower peaks, a few hundred from the cliffs on each side. There is no room for error. The roads are no less a challenge. The unpaved single-track trail from the helicopter pad at Astana in the Panjshir Valley--a United Front stronghold--winds between a fast-moving river...
...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...
...Could the minister of information walk the lion around the garden, asked the TV crew. "Why not?" The minister led the lion up the driveway whereupon it dove into our four-wheel drive and started spinning around on the back seat. The minister grabbed a black sun hat and used it to encourage the lion out. It jumped at the hat and tore it to shreds. By this stage we were all getting very nervous. The lion ran into a thicket of bamboo and the minister shouted something at the lion handler who disappeared for a few moments before reappearing...