Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finishing his first day on the new job and anxious to hurry home to his five children and ailing wife, Jackson slid behind the wheel of his light truck and switched on the ignition. He had driven only three blocks when a bomb exploded under his seat, sending the truck careening into a telephone pole with enough force to kill him instantly...
...will not only fail to prevent student conscription, and will therefore demoral-be the movement; it will, in addition, convince workers they were right all along about students. Instead, while fighting against campus divisions in the form of class rank and draft tests, students must ally themselves with truck drivers, factory workers, long-shoremen, department store clerks. On the one hand we should support their strikes with manpower and by raising funds on campus, support their fights to defeat anti-strike legislation, aid their attempts to organize unions, help them combat war-inflated food prices with boycotts...
...being the testimony of Miranda's common-law wife. "When I visited him in jail," she said, "he admitted to me that he had kidnaped the girl and roped her up, then took her into the desert and raped her." The jury convicted the 26-year-old former truck driver after an hour and 23 minutes of deliberation. He is still to be sentenced; last time he got 20 to 30 years...
...Kawamata, 62, was a 100-m.p.h. limousine-at last ending imperial dependence on foreign makes. The second was a gleaming batch of figures. They showed that in 1966 Japan had bumped Britain out of its No. 3 spot, moved in behind the U.S. and Germany in world car and truck production...
Truffaut creates an aura of sterility around everything in the hero's life. His job (he's the book-burner) is to regulate his students' behavior (they're the future book-burners) in class and to follow a strict regimen himself on the truck. Oskar Werner demonstrates with tight-lipped professionalism that the first place to look for a book is the toaster. He stands out against the brash red of the fire engine--black uniform, arms akimbo--like a medieval executioner. His domestic life is equally grim. His wife is preoccupied with the puppets and parrots on their mammoth...