Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solace from the fact that they have unquestionably saved some boys from life behind bars. One Warwick graduate told Superintendent Cohen that he was going to go straight and land a job driving "the biggest damn truck in the world." A few years later he drove a huge tractor-trailer right up to the Warwick gates. Another boy told Cohen: "Warwick gave me eyes. I ain't stupid no more. I can read...
...room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
There, both were arrested last week, along with two Frenchwomen and a Brazilian national who were also charged with complicity. Meanwhile, agents had swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...
Orphaned as a baby, she was adopted by a Micmac Indian couple-a mechanic and his proofreader wife-and raised in Wakefield, Mass. Her summers were spent in a trailer on the shores of Sebago Lake, Me. It was there as a teenager, wandering alone through the forest, that she began to compose. She taught herself to play the guitar "all backwards," inventing her own finger patterns and "32 different tunings, which account for the strange flavor of my music." With the aid of a Government loan, she entered the University of Massachusetts, studied Oriental philosophy and elementary education...
...civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...