Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Prefect Dupuch had 80,000 French troops in action in his département. He said he needed 80,000 more. Fully one-third of Algeria north of the Sahara was in a state of siege. Stations, tent camps, truck parks and supply dumps were corseted in barbed wire and surmounted by steel watchtowers. The road to Batna, metropolis of the Aures Mountains, was strewn with sabotaged telegraph poles and bloated dead cattle...
...Travis Jr., a St. Charles, Mo. Buick, Pontiac and G.M.C. truck dealer, lost his franchise because "he simply did not meet the challenge presented by the current automobile market...
...body ("like a young bull"). "I was the peasant," she cries, "but I gave my hosband glory." One day reality in the improbable form of Alvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), "a bachelor wit' three dependents," breaks into Serafina's dank little dreamworld. Like the smuggler, he drives a truck, and has a rose tattooed on his brawny chest, which reminds Serafina almost unbearably of her husband's. Hard facts as well as a new set of hard muscles break the husband's deadlock on her affections-it turns out he had been keeping a girl (Virginia Grey...
Sophist. In Minneapolis, after he was ticketed for parking in a truck zone, Motorist Andy Veres argued in traffic court that he was only half guilty since part of his car projected into a legal parking area, persuaded Judge Tom Bergin to cut his $5 fine...
...five-month "baby" (pictured at left), which the zoo inherited, destroyed two packing cases before he was sufficiently subdued to allow shippers to pack him in another case for the ten day truck and plane trip to New York City...