Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada the hurricane brought solid walls of rain; Toronto, with 7.2 in. in a day, doubled all previous rainfall records. Rowboats, helicopters and even a fire truck (its ladders thrust far over the water) rescued many from the rooftop-dotted waters of the Humber and Don Rivers. But the drowned and killed totaled at least 66, and damage in Ontario was estimated at $100 million. By the time cold currents over Hudson Bay finally put an ice pack on Tourist Hazel, the eighth hurricane of the season had blown up into the year's worst, and the autumn storm...
Persuader. In Apollo. Pa., when Bartender Ray Bodenhorn refused him another drink. John Baustert. 28. went outside to his pickup truck, crashed it through the front of the bar. got out and said, "Now can I have a drink...
Buses to the Sanctuary. A printer by trade, Edwards ran for Parliament in 1935 as a Liberal, was defeated, then took up spiritualism. He still recalls the time he stepped off a bus in front of an onrushing truck, only to be swept on the sidewalk safe and sound by what he knows were forces from the other world...
...puffy-faced, balding Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, 57, who at the height of his career turned out an autobiography called Along the Glory Road, traveled a sadder road in North Hollywood, smashed his sports car into a truck, was nabbed by police with a depleted bottle of gin. After slugging a Drunkometer, Tibbett was fined $263 on his guilty plea to charges of drunken driving and hitting the truck...
...really going to take care of that drum," Novick said. So traveling with the Band will be a number of drum-guards and a specially padded truck to ward off any possible damage. Meanwhile, the Band members are on the lookout for a cow with enough skin to replace the present drumhead...