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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck loaded with soldiers and rifles stopped in a Budapest street beside a band of shouting civilians. "Go ahead take them," a soldier said. "No!" said a man who seemed to be their leader "Our weapon is the flag." Behind him fluttered Hungary's red, white and green banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Revolution! | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...this there is only one clear fault to be called.' but it is a crippling one. Director Wyler seems to have learned everything he knows about deep country from the double-truck color spreads in Better Homes and Gardens. The pastures are sometimes dyed a fluorescent green that would surely blind a cow. The fences organize the landscape as artfully as if it were a Fifth Avenue window. And that dear little Bucks County farmhouse with the walk-in fireplace and the lovely Shaker furniture is the one that every Sunday driver has been looking for all his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...alluring Anita Ekberg, being flown out of Las Vegas to become a B-girl in Boca Grande, South America. Reels Two and Three: meet eight other passengers who will fly to Boca Grande with her, including a vodka-drinking pilot (Yes ... (sob), she was killed that night by a truck...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Back From Eternity | 11/3/1956 | See Source »

Pasha) sailed into action to help the beleaguered frontier guards. The Israeli ambushers killed 13 Jordanians in one truck. But they could not break off action until they brought up artillery, and heavy guns were firing over the border along a ten-mile front. Windows shook in Tel Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Battle for Jordan | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...truck and a jeep full of pith-helmeted cops armed with rifles and Sten guns rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: By a Landslide | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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