Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey-painted panel truck braked to a stop. Three Viet Cong leaped out and opened fire on the two guards with sub machine guns. The MP was hit in the shoulder but still managed to get off four shotgun blasts and empty...
Then, as he and his Vietnamese partner crawled inside to get help, the truck, packed with what must have been 250 lbs. of plastique (a putty-like, easily shaped explosive), blew up. The fire ball knocked out nearly every window within a radius of 100 yds., demolished five of the buses, blew several stories of the facade off the Metropole, dug a 12-by 13-ft. crater in the pavement...
...plenty of isolation, but it was not altogether splendid. On orders of Prime Minister Ian Smith, all phone lines to Sir Humphrey's official residence were cut. Then, in rapid succession, his armed police guard was withdrawn, his blue-tarbooshed honor guards tossed their bedrolls into a police truck and were driven away, and his butlers, gardeners, cooks and maids disappeared. His chauffeur even drove off with his official Rolls-Royce...
...Steve Van Buren was the best runner who ever lived. Thorpe was flamboyant and unpredictable; he could be very good when the notion struck him-or very, very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky to be bigger (at 230 lbs.) than most of the people he had to run over in the 1930s. Grange was a 165-lb. scatback, who never ran over anybody at all. Like Brown, he was accused of being a shirker at blocking: "All Grange...
...biggest buyers, ordered $10 million worth of pig iron and iron ore and large quantities of soybeans and maize. Typically, though, they took home more money than they left behind, made deals to sell the Red Chinese $100 million worth of steel plate, stainless-steel tubing and heavy truck axles. In Peking this week, France will take its turn at supplying Red China's urgent demand. The French are opening a huge industrial exposition for which they carefully selected each exhibit to satisfy concrete interest expressed by potential Red customers...