Word: moke
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...thing to read about it in the newspaper, but it's another thing to see them actually scrape the body parts off the street." DOUG MOKE, an American student studying in Beersheba, Israel, on the scene after two bus bombings there killed 16 people. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attacks...
...with correspondent Bill Stewart after most of his colleagues were evacuated. Saigon fell apart quickly, and so did Stewart's plans for getting himself and Trang out of town. Despite a curfew and checkpoints manned by nervous soldiers, he and Trang trekked across the city in a yellow mini Moke to retrieve Trang's wife and two-year-old daughter. "It was the dumbest thing any of us had ever done in Vietnam," Stewart says. Stewart returned from this successful mission only to learn that he could not bring any Vietnamese out with...
...exceedingly difficult to moke people realize that an evil is an evil. For instance, we seize a man and deliberately do him a malicious injury: say, imprison him for years. One would not appear that it needed any exceptional cruelty. --George Bernard Shaw...
...across a crowded Dickensian canvas where social strata collide, and the gravedigger waits by the charnel house. In this underworld, usually located in downtown Detroit or Miami's coke country, thugs and pushers are unappealing, malignant-and instantly recognizable. All one needs to know of Hit Man Eddie Moke in Stick, for instance, is that he changed his image from heavy metal to urban cowboy but still looked "like he mainlined cement." Paco Boza, a Cuban street junkie of LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn't like to walk...
...holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also has a press pass, plenty of Dunhills and unlimited credit at the Red Crab. Just like the old days, only now his faithful companion is not a 300-lb. Samoan attorney, it is V.S. Naipaul...