Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caribbean cruise ship, its controls fritzed by a mad computer genius (there's no other kind in the movies these days) and set on a collision course first with a loaded oil tanker, then with a resort island? No, this is not a scenario that haunts our sleepless nights...
...other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck, and the two vehicles were driving slowly along the edge of the lot. Directly opposite Building 131, where Guerrero stood watching, the Mercedes-Benz tanker backed up to the 10-ft.-high chain-link fence that separated the lot from the military area. Two men leaped out of the truck...
...around Vitez in central Bosnia. The tribunal says that local civilians, including Skopljak, together with Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic, were in charge when Croats sacked the village of Ahmici, tossing grenades into cellars where villagers sought to hide. To dislodge holdouts in downtown Vitez, Croats filled a tanker truck with explosives, tied a Muslim to the steering wheel and propelled the vehicle into a block of houses, killing and maiming dozens...
...SOON AS THEY SAW THE PLUME OF gas, the Mexican truck drivers leaped out of their cabs and ran for the American side of the border. Acrylic acid, a toxic chemical, had leaked from a tanker waiting in line for U.S. Customs inspection, and the liquid was vaporizing as it gathered in a noxious pool. It was "chewing holes in the pavement," says Lee Thompson, who saw it all happen in early November at the border station outside Laredo, Texas. His hazardous-materials response team, fortuitously on the scene for a training exercise, rushed to prevent the highly flammable acid...
Serious tragedies occur almost weekly. Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...