Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willingness to compromise, would not compromise with Fascists. After lunch, he sat down and wrote a polemic that appeared next morning on the front page of the Christian Democratic Il Popolo under the signature "Quidam de Populo" ("One of the People"). Said De Gasperi: he would have no truck with the neo-Fascist party, which attacks basic principles of democracy, and "glorifies the regime that has gone...
Drop-off point (n.) : Place where copies of TIME come off a plane, train or truck...
...Double truck (n.): Two-page ad on facing pages...
...have lost practically nothing to U.N. ground fire, whereas the great majority of the U.N.'s losses (about 890) are due to enemy flak. Red antiaircraft fire, increasing constantly in quality and quantity, now curtains long stretches of railroad, and on the highways Red flak-wagons guard the truck convoys. Around some sensitive targets in North Korea, the flak, automatic and radar-directed, is as deadly as the fiercest German concentrations of World...
...Trucks were bunched on the hill. Hall wanted to land in the right lane where a truck had seen the plane and stopped traffic. A line of trees prevented him, however. He tried the center strip, but the landing gear hit a west-bound trailer truck and the plane nose-dived into the highway...