Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police wagon and a small truck drove up to the back door of a Moscow courthouse last week, avoiding the knot of students, the Western newsmen, and the two tearful wives who were waiting at the front. Into the vehicles were bundled Authors Daniel Sinyavsky, 40, and Yuli Daniel, 40, who were then whisked off to start serving terms of seven and five years, respectively, in forced-labor colonies. As expected, Sinyavsky and Daniel had been found guilty in a stacked trial of "maliciously slandering" Russia in their stories-some of which, oddly enough, concern writers serving terms in forced...
Sept.--Dietz asks the Board of Zoning Appeals to veto the Coop's building permit for the annex on the grounds that the truck dock is too small and that the building has too much floor area for its lot size...
...Dietz asks the Appeals Board to toss the Coop out of the first half of the annex because it has no temporary loading dock. The Coop shows pictures of a truck unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Dietz' attorney claims that the photographs were staged and that the platform is usually blocked. The Coop denies...
...landscape of Calabria in southern Italy, where flies buzz and donkeys bray through a stillness quite cordial to Biblical tradition. In desolate, crumbling villages, Pasolini chokes the narrow streets with children, animals and a startling collection of peasant faces. None are professional actors; the Apostle Judas is a Roman truck driver, the Virgin Mary in her later years is Pasolini's mother. Pasolini catches their simplicity and intensity with powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved in some ancient miracles. Occasionally...
...winter when Boston was unable to ship government wheat to India because the two city's grain elevators, both leased by railroad companies, had been closed down. The advantage of railroad proximity to piers (in Boston cargo can be loaded directly onto railway cars) has become less valuable since truck transport now accounts for 80 per cent of the traffic...