Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks the Soviet zone Communists have subjected West Berlin to a kind of creeping harassment. Item: by increased red tape at the check points, they slowed down allied truck traffic between West Berlin and West Germany. Item: railway workers, teachers and technicians, who worked in East Berlin but lived in the West sectors, were fired from their jobs. Item: some 4,000 young men & women living in the East zone but studying at West Berlin's universities were told that, unless they gave up their studies, they would lose their identity cards, without which life in divided Berlin...
...engines soared for about a mile. One of them missed the hill, tore through a radio truck and smashed two motorcycles. The other engine, flying lower, broke in two and plowed two bloody furrows through the churning crowd. Besides Pilot Derry and his observer, Tony Richards, 28 people were killed, 63 injured...
Before the crowd at center court had time to catch its breath, broad-backed (5 ft. 10 in., 170 Ibs.), blond Lewis ("The Truck Driver") Hoad, who balefully blasts the ball, in contrast to Rosewall's defter touch, was meeting 1950 Title-holder Larsen. The U.S.'s No. 3, a retriever, was whipped...
...Mixer. In Chicago, after a ten-day hunt for Truck Driver Dumonte Ashley Parker and a missing truckload of 750 cases of gin, police finally found the truck, short 250 cases, and Parker tipsy in a nearby tavern, where he indignantly told them: "I drink whisky myself...
Sealed & Delivered. In Chicago, when Titus Werner, 39, rolled up the windows and locked himself in his car to avoid being questioned about a traffic violation, a tow truck was called to haul him away to the police station...