Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, two motorists spotted the white Bronco on the San Diego Freeway and called the police. The infamous chase then ensued--with one until now unpublicized stop. According to the D.A.'s memo, Cowlings, who was driving the car, pulled the Bronco over after police ordered him to stop. The cops, however, drew their guns as they approached the car. "F--- no!" yelled Cowlings, slamming his fist against the driver's door. "He's got a gun to his head," he screamed, referring to O.J., and then sped off. The pursuit resumed until the Bronco ended up at Rockingham, where...
...Simpson Saga. For most sports fans it all began during the telecast of Game 5 of Knicks-Rockets 1994 NBA championship series with a white-bronco chase along a near-deserted freeway in California. Few could have guessed then that the saga would continue for 16 months of jury selection, DNA evidence, bloody gloves, mystery envelopes, Fuhrman tapes and, in maybe the most ironic twist of the entire circus, a verdict in four hours...
...telephoning a disabled-access taxi service, she had to wait nearly two hours. The driver charged $90 to transport her and Martinez to a wheelchair-repair shop across the bay. Strapped in her chair like furniture, Breslin rocked uncomfortably in the rear of the van with each high-speed freeway turn. A technician fixed her electric motor, and soon a friend arrived to help her get home. Such is the life of the disabled: determined, resourceful and, all too often, reliant on the kindness of strangers...
Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber and Army veteran, stole a National Guard tank and steamrolled down San Diego streets, plowing over cars and utility poles. Police shot and killed him after he refused to surrender and instead tried to roll the tank off a concrete freeway divider...
...division. On June 13, 1985, in his fourth-floor office, he wrapped up between 5 and 7 lbs. of cable traffic and other secret documents in plastic bags, walked out to the parking lot and drove across the Potomac to Chadwick's, a Washington saloon under the K Street Freeway in Georgetown. There he met Sergei Chuvakhin, the first secretary of the Soviet embassy in Washington, and handed him the plastic bags...