Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control tower in answer to his plea. "We'll tow you in." Pilot Legillou ordered champagne and brandy passed out to the passengers. "We must be happy while we wait," he said. An airline bus set out to the rescue across the runways. It promptly got lost. A truck was sent to find the bus. It also got lost. Within an hour five separate search parties were groping helplessly about the field. At long last, a lone motorcyclist loomed out of the mist at the plane's door. "I've found you," he told the passengers cheerfully...
...hour later, a bus worked its way at last to the plane's side and picked up the passengers. They arrived at the waiting-room only to learn that the truck which carried all their luggage was lost...
...first bus went off the trolley when it tried to go around a double-parked truck. Its trolley pole flew up and broke the rope connecting it with the back of the bus. While a policeman climbed to the roof of the bus to pull down the pole, two more busses tried to pass, broke loose, and stopped...
...Egyptians claimed that Tommies started it, by firing on a truck loaded with Egyptian police; the British charged that Egyptian terrorists began it, by sniping at military engineers. Either way, before the skirmish outside the canal zone city of Suez was ended last week, 16 Egyptians and 13 Britons were dead. So long as increasingly embittered adversaries faced each other, guns in hand, such clashes and more deaths seemed inevitable...
...three Santas at R. H. White's, replacing a Mr. Boccuzzi who had just contracted some childhood disease and was away at the hospital. Spang himself works on the Number One shift and is an old hand at the job. He is a truck driver during the off season and, when you get down to it, not a very jolly fellow; but once he went to a Santa Claus school and he takes his work seriously. "There has always been a Santa Claus," Spang likes to say," and there still is, and there always will...