Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmarried females who hang out with the club-often rent a dilapidated house on the edge of a town, where they swap girls, drugs and stolen motorcycle parts with equal abandon. In between drug-induced stupors, the Angels go on motorcycle-stealing forays, even have a panel truck with a special ramp for loading the stolen machines. Afterward, they may ride off again to seek some new nadir in sordid behavior...
...they have built up their armament, the Greek Cypriots have been slowly closing the ring about the Turkish communities by cutting off supplies and setting up roadblocks. In theory, the Turkish Cypriots are at liberty to travel anywhere, but in practice it is difficult. At some roadblocks Turkish Cypriot truck drivers are stopped for tedious "searches," in which their cargoes of fruit or vegetables are unloaded on the ground and sometimes damaged beyond use. No gasoline is allowed into the Turkish quarter of Nicosia. A few Turks make a habit of driving back and forth to gas stations...
...month because of the danger of ambush along its winding 100-mile course through the Viet Conginfested countryside. But with troops, armored cars and overflying helicopters as escorts, a 168-vehicle convoy punched through to Pleiku with 300 tons of much-needed supplies. Two days later, a 77-truck convoy repeated the trip...
...This street is too narrow to have buses parked right here," said the MBTA dispatcher who stands in front of Lehman Hall. "I'm just waiting for the day when a big truck comes from one way and a crane comes from another--we'll lose the side of a bus sure...
When he answered his office phone one Friday last month, Coates was not surprised to hear a husky female voice announce that Manuel Ruiz, one of a suspected gang which had relieved an armored truck of $110,000, wanted to surrender. Coates accepted the offer. "Dad's playing Dick Tracy again," quipped one of his sons. Coates appeared at the appointed hour on a lonely Los Angeles street corner. "I always do it, and I'm always scared...