Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed a mite too pleasant before, even while pushing Doctor No into the radioactive heavy water. Now that streak of sadistic cruelty which endeared the written Bond to all Harvard Walter Mittys appears in all its glory. We grin as the movie Bond slams the hood of a truck on one villain's hand. We snicker as he slaps luscious Daniela Bianchi around a compartment on the Orient Express. We cheer as he dumps a non-swimmer into the Adriatic with the valediction "This just isn't your...
...guerrilla war, the Viet Cong distinguished themselves with one of their grisliest blows. Ambushing a truck convoy transporting twoscore women and children in the central mountains, 150 Communist terrorists shot or stabbed to death six women and five children, wounded 21 other women. Then the Reds mutilated several of the bodies, carving out the victims' hearts and spleens. The government retaliated with less savage successes of its own. Three hundred miles north of Saigon, Rangers overran a Viet Cong ordnance depot, capturing 166 weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps...
...seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...Anyone? At the noon starting gun the temperature was in the 30s, and a 20-m.p.h. head wind pelted the marathoners with sleet. Water seeped through the soles of their thin racing shoes. Here and there, an angry dog snapped at a runner's ankles, although an A.S.P.C.A. truck drove ahead, offering free leashes to bystanders with mutts. A few little boys tried to press orange slices into their heroes' hands. A pair of collegians, wearing shirts emblazoned "Pseudo A.C.," loped up to harry the leaders until the cops shooed them...
Predictably, truck sales climbed to records under Iacocca's accelerator, and he soon moved on to become the car marketing manager for the Ford Division. One promotion followed another-until the telephone rang one November morning in 1960. It was Henry Ford II, and he wanted Iacocca to drop over. Less than an hour later,Iacocca drove back to division headquarters as its new boss...