Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diem refused to pardon him, Ba Cut asked to be shot like a soldier. One night last week 32-year-old Ba Cut wrote a farewell letter, asking his parents to care for the innumerable children of his nine wives. Then, before dawn, he was driven in an army truck to Cantho cemetery. Dressed in black, his waist-length hair now cut short, Ba Cut was led to the place of execution. Only then did he discover that his plea for a firing squad had been rejected; before him loomed the shining blade of a French guillotine...
...absence of any real bitterness in the steel strike, even though other industries also started to feel the pinch. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which gets 30% of its revenues from the steel industry, imposed a 10% pay cut on all nonunion employees. Some 90,000 other workers in rail, truck and water transportation industries were laid off. To keep defense plants running, the Government clamped a freeze on certain steel stocks, ordered warehouses to ship them only to defense contractors. Yet it would still be several weeks before any real pinch was felt, and no one was crying crisis...
...carried hammers on their shoulders. On the way to town they persuaded office workers and tram employees to join them. At 11 a.m., now a vast crowd, they gathered in front of City Hall. A Communist official tried to speak to them from the top of a public-address truck. A group of youths scrambled up onto the truck and began manhandling the Communist; most of the workers did not mix in; neither did the onlooking cops. Then a whisper went through the crowd: the workers' delegation was back in town and had been arrested...
...observer counted 36 tanks and armored cars) had come to the rescue of the embattled security guards. The tanks opened fire on the armed workers with machine guns and cannon, killing many. Cannon were set up in Freedom Square, and tanks soon commanded every tactical point in the city. Truck-borne soldiers began mopping up the side streets. Some Polish soldiers had no heart for the job. "You have nothing to fear from us," a soldier was heard shouting to the workers. A Polish soldier was shot by an officer because he refused to fire on the workers...
...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it−and the picture−to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...