Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teen-agers were killed instantly. After the raid, as I walked through the heart of Umuahia's residential quarter, a Ministry of Works dump truck had begun plying the streets to collect other victims...
...Kaunda's decision two years ago to go along with United Nations sanctions against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only about $200 a year...
...those he meets on the road." And no where is the species more homicidal than in France, whose drivers are peculiarly susceptible to "vanity, excessive impetuosity and bad manners." A recent altercation in Paris eloquently illustrates the diagnosis: annoyed when he was delayed briefly by a slow-moving panel truck, the driver of a Citroën sedan sped around it, whipped in front of it in an insulting maneuver known locally as a queue de poisson (fishtail swerve), then forced the truck to stop and shot its driver...
...outsiders. So, when thousands of visitors stream into town on Easter weekend for the annual Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, the residents go all out to accommodate them. Farmer Herman Speece lets herds of autos crowd the cows off his pasture. The boys at the firehouse move the truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies of the P.T.A. serve home-cooked country ham, chicken and cake at the school. And if the guests get to roughhousing, hooting, doing clog dances and even...
...Corps of Engineers has found that the most effective way to repair erosion is simply to bring new sand to the beaches-either hauling it in by truck or pumping it up from the ocean floor. Such methods have successfully rebuilt California's Redondo Beach, for example, where 14 years ago the waves were breaking over the sea wall and across the road behind. But these measures are expensive. Atlantic City has invested $9,000,000 over the years on a combination of jetties and pumping devices to keep its tourist industry alive. California spends more than...