Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot and rushed from the bank toward a Ford truck...
...looked like a triumphant day's work for the FBI. But next day, Portland police got to wondering about where Wayne Long had got the Ford truck, discovered that it was owned by a Portland carpenter. The carpenter's body was found 25 miles outside of town; he had been shot through the head with a large caliber bullet. Wayne Long was charged with first degree murder...
Dominating the parade, which included classes ranging up from 1900, was 1925, which scorned frills to appear with white caps and a band. At the other extreme was the Class of 47, with a Brink's truck and signs reading "22 years...
Just as the crowd was working itself into a mood to stop the removal of the reliquary, a cloud drifted over Orvieto. Hail began to rattle down. Quickly, the people understood the sign: the hail would have shattered a glass-roofed truck. The closed truck was best. Maurizio Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...
...people, includes a central area with elementary schools, playgrounds and parks, and a shopping center. Three superblocks make up a district, with the high schools, swimming pool and auditorium for the district in the center superblock. Only footpaths, bicycle and bullock-cart paths cross the superblocks: all bus, truck and automobile traffic goes around them; for direct traffic to the capitol from outside the city, two wide highways, called greenways, run from end to end of the city. A rivulet running through the valley will be dammed at one end for a lake which will reflect the capitol buildings...