Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restaurant: "He said he was going to kill the whole family and then come back and cut our throats." Half an hour later, Sherod, with his family in the car, sped down a highway, swerved across several lanes into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into a tractor truck. The truck driver and his helper were injured. Sherod and two of his children were seriously hurt. Sherod's wife and seven youngsters were killed...
...Dump Truck. In a step aimed at boosting farm production, the government granted incentives to collective farms by canceling their $2 billion debt to the State Bank and promised premium prices for any deliveries above quotas. Also announced was a $77 billion investment in agriculture by 1970 -most of it to be paid by the government. On the industrial front, Kosygin called for more consumer goods, announced that the next Five Year Plan would provide higher wages for factory workers, who currently earn an average $120 a month. It was the first indication of a break in the long wage...
...accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere west of Suez. Stirling's sister, Pat Moss Carlsson, was running second when she tried to overtake a truck in her Swedish Saab. The truck was disinclined; Pat was dislocated...
...Saturday, Aug. 8, Grainger and two aides-a Vietnamese and a Filipino -set out in a pickup truck from Tuy Hoa to a sugar cane experimental station in Tan My, 21 miles away. Grainger was driving hard, since a leisurely pace on any road in that province is an invitation to attack. He passed two lightly manned government roadblocks, ignoring signals to turn back. At length he came to another roadblock, this one held by four Viet Cong. As Grainger tried to race through the block, a hand grenade landed in the road in front of the truck and exploded...
...same wherever the twisters struck. Near Toledo, Ohio, a tornado picked up one family's car and hurled it into a creek, killing two small boys and injuring their parents. A few yards away, it ripped the roof from a two-story house, leaving the occupants untouched. A truck driver tried to find shelter beneath an overpass, but the twister scooped him out and turned his truck over...