Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Qualification Course. In Detroit, after being arrested in a stolen municipal truck, Robert Battle, 23, told police he was on his way to get a job with the city, "and I wanted to be able to say I could drive a truck...
...indestructible in wars, flew 23 missions as a gunner before D-day in World War II, later made a parachute jump at the Rhine ("I got jarred around a little bit, that's all"), and came out unscathed when his jeep was forced off the road by a truck in Korea...
Last Laugh. In Olivette, Mo., Garage Owner Walter Broeker was defeated for re-election to the town's board of trustees, promptly hiked rent for the town's fire truck from $80 a month...
...dark bulk 3,000 yards off to the left, against the mid-Atlantic night. Like the destroyer, which was tearing through the rising seas with all hatches battened down, she was operating under simulated war conditions, and was completely blacked out save for a glimmer of light at her truck. The Wasp had planes in the air; when she began a sweeping 120° turn into the wind to pick them up, she came boiling through the darkness at 27 knots, as full of ferocious and implacable motherhood as some vast and angry sea monster...
...floats into a town crew and all. I think Wentworth has gone much too far here. There is nothing at all funny about an eighteenth century ship; in fact the idea immediately suggests ghosts a possibility Wentworth never even mentions. His crew merely abandons ship purchases and old truck and heads for the Northwest Passage via route twenty leaving the reader unamused and quite puzzled...