Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like all good designs, it turned out to be very expensive--about $1.5 million. We made a lot of changes. The TV studio wasn't in the original plans. We had to raise the said his life is intertwined with ceiling two feet for that. WGBH will pull their truck right in here," gesturing at the dusty courtyard, "until Harvard starts its own station in the fall. Before long the whole University will be interconnected by television...
...same, Bogalusa remained a sleeping volcano. Last week it erupted with a sickening blast. Deputies Moore and Rogers were cruising in their police car one night near the hamlet of Varnado, seven miles north of Bogalusa. An old pickup truck caught up with them from behind. Shotgun bursts smashed the deputies' rear window. Then the truck drew abreast of the car. A second volley ripped out. It caught Rogers in the shoulder and blew Moore's head open...
Moore was dead. But Rogers immediately sent out a radio alarm, giving a description of the black truck, detailed down to the Confederate-flag decal on the front bumper. Less than an hour later, police at a roadblock in Tylertown, Miss., just across the state line, stopped a truck fitting Rogers' description. Arrested was Ernest Ray McElveen, 41, a mill worker and sometime insurance man from Bogalusa, who happened to have two pistols with...
...knew he'd be able to sell the fruit and retire on the profits. Immediately he telephoned the local strawberry appraiser to rush out, measure it, and tell him how much it would bring on the open market. Within an hour the appraiser arrived in his pick-up truck, but instead of taking out his measuring instruments he uprooted the strawberry, tossed it into his truck and drove off. "Help!" cried farmer Jones. "What is the meaning of this?" The thief replied as he disappeared into the distance...
Three fire engines, including a book-and-ladder truck, roared into the quad, but all they found was a lot of smoke and what fireman George Carvahlo called "delayed ignition in the oil burner...