Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck. Finally, as a heavy rain began to fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among the rubber trees in the biggest parachute assault in Viet Nam since 1963. Soon the troops the four nations joined up, and 5,000 men began moving across a ten-mile front at the rate...
Father Nedel's African colony at the University in São Leopoldo suddenly went berserk, forced one of his assistants to take refuge in a truck, then turned on another man, two dogs and several children. Next day the Jesuit beekeeper ordered his eight African queens destroyed...
...nightmare began Friday before Labor Day, when Boggs and Dixie stopped at a roadside park on U.S. 9 outside Luling, Texas, in a car he had stolen in Houston two days before. Parked near by was a pickup truck belonging to San Antonio Contractor Harold Flory, 50, who was fishing in the San Marcos River. Boggs killed Flory with a hammer, then rifled his pockets, and slipped the body into the river It was found there by a motorist who saw a fishing line running from the river to some bushes, tugged on it and, to his horror, pulled...
...Meanwhile, Boggs and Dixie had driven Flory's pickup truck, with a .22-cal. revolver in the glove compartment, to Oklahoma where they abandoned it, kept the gun and began hitchhiking. They were picked up by two Newport, N.H., men, Robert Willis, 23, and Halvor Johnson, 28 who were driving in Johnson's black Simca to Los Angeles to look for work...
...Aerospace spent more than $200,000 on recruiting advertisements, paid some new employees as much as 100% more than they had been receiving in other jobs. Moving expenses were handsome: Dr. Getting was allowed $3,133.02 to truck his 40-ft. boat from Gloucester, Mass., to San Pedro, Calif., and one engineer was allowed $3,900 for moving 21 miles closer to his job from a house 80 miles from the plant...