Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land, in the air and on the spree, it was a week of disasters for Brazil. Twenty miles north of Rio, a truck crammed with 86 southbound migrants missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week...
...third witness took the stand and told how he had been beaten by Ramirez with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
...agents were investigating Fort Grant. The incident that interested them was a report that involved a twelve-year-old runaway who had been clubbed, whipped, hung by the neck until almost strangled, then hauled down and finally forced at whip's-end to run in front of a truck until he collapsed...
...climax comes when the second truck explodes in a soaring white flash. Gerard, by sacrificing his partner, pushes on to Zulaco...
...these faults are hardly worth carping about. The Wages of Fear is a first novel by Georges Arnaud, 34, a wartime refugee from France who made his way to Central America, worked as truck driver and gold prospector, and soaked himself in the life of the oil fields. His story marks Arnaud as one of those literary naturals who find their bent the first try. Brutal, violent and good storytelling, The Wages of Fear makes a lot of hard-boiled writers look like children writing for their maiden aunts...