Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onlookers jeered and whistled. A 19-year-old in a white sweat shirt drew loud laughter by pretending to direct the hymn. Then, some in the crowd picked up dust and debris from the road and tossed it over the singers, but they paid no attention. A loudspeaker truck blaring jazz music raced up and pointed its horn directly at the group. Chief of Police Edward Carpentier arrived and ordered the singers to move on. When the Baptists refused, a dozen burly men hit them in a flying wedge. For 15 minutes the mauling went...
...34th Regiment scraped together a convoy of 113 vehicles and barreled through the outskirts of the city, but was halted when enemy shells set fire to an ammunition truck at the head of the column. The driver of the next truck drove through a hail of enemy fire, rammed the exploding ammunition truck off the road, and led the rest safely through the lines...
With sirens wailing, two shiny jeeps with .30-caliber machine guns mounted on their hoods rattled last week along a dusty South Korean road, passing long truck convoys plodding north. Weary G.I. truck drivers were slow at first to give the jeeps the right of way, but after a startled doubletake they pulled over in a hurry. On the fenders of the lead jeep were two small shiny metal flags, one carrying the three stars of a lieutenant general, the other bearing the letters "CG-8." In the lead jeep, his big hand grasping an arm rest, was grim-faced...
Last week the statue was taken from its shell and gently laid out in a truck to be transported to a grander location in Frederick's graceful palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam. Barely had the trip got under way when the truck broke down; the Reds announced that Frederick would be temporarily restored to his old pedestal, but that glory at Sans Souci still awaited...
...Open Road. In Brooklyn, William Niacharico explained to cops why he had climbed into a loaded municipal garbage truck and driven off: "It was a nice day and I felt like taking a ride...