Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past police, attacked White and knocked out some of his teeth before he was rescued. The mob bombarded the cops again for nearly two hours, until police finally drove most of the demonstrators away. Then, as it drew dark, gangs returned to the neighborhood, smashed car windows, overturned a truck and beat the driver, fought police, shattered nearby shopwindows and looted the stores. City officials cracked down, outlawed all picketing and public demonstrations, and postponed any further construction work at the school until a committee named by the school board and civil rights groups could make yet another study...
...fellow by the name of Robert McNamara, then Ford Division general manager, picked up the "lacocca Plan" for the entire U.S. The plan got credit for selling 72,000 extra 1956 Fords, and before the year was out McNamara had brought lacocca into Detroit to become manager of Ford truck marketing...
...Rockers have no desire to be accepted. At truck stops outside London, they sit by the hour rolling cigarettes and jabbering intently about motorcycles. Only when a covey of new cyclists roars into the parking lot do they look up to see "who's got a new bike." Though they all look like Marlon Brando in The Wild One, they worry about their reputation as troublemakers, claim gravely: "That film did us a lot of harm." The Rockers do not conceal their disdain for the Mods. "The money we spend tripping around and going places, they spend on clothes...
...riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny, coal-black Captain Nelson peered down the rutted dirt track from the south as proudly as if Emma, Lady Hamilton were being piped aboard the poop deck. It was another load of passengers for his Freedom Ferry...
...colonial master, France-but he also sent an arms-buying mission to Peking. Three weeks ago, not long after he expressed the hope that "the United States and Cambodia would soon be friends again," came a high point: in Pnompenh, mobs urged on by a Ministry of Information sound truck stormed the American and British embassies. They left the USIS office looking as if it had been hit by a tornado, forced the evacuation of 63 U.S. dependents...