Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GASOLINE TAX EXPENDITURES. For a pickup truck used by his gardener at San Clemente, Nixon claimed gasoline tax deductions totaling $244 over the four years. To burn that much fuel, the truck would have had to be driven from 9,500 to 15,000 miles a year. Presidential records indicate that it was driven far less. In 1970, for example, Nixon claimed a $73 deduction for gasoline taxes; that same year, according to his records, only $45.47 worth of gasoline (including $10 in tax) was bought for the truck. The report recommends that Nixon refund $147.84 for overdeductions on gasoline...
...latest troubles began when a 500-lb. bomb hidden in an abandoned truck exploded, shattering a large part of Royal Avenue, Belfast's main shopping thoroughfare. What particularly annoyed shopkeepers was that the Provos had twice within three weeks slipped through military checkpoints to plant smaller bombs in the same area. Later, in the seaside resort town of Bangor, Proves eluded door guards to set off fire bombs in four stores, causing at least $12 million in damages. Bombs planted in cars also went off in Lisburn and Antrim, leaving sections of these towns looking like World...
...poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious, and lay in a coma for a week. Friends knew that he was going to make it only when his aide, Ira Tucker Jr., knelt down next to Wonder...
...movie Conroy has no such qualms. In the film's most egregious invention, he hires a sound truck to tour white districts, lecturing about his grievances and their indifference. At which point the movie's insistence on reducing a complex character to a single, simple-minded dimension becomes too vulgar to bear. Ironically, the people who made Conrack commit the same errors as the educational system their hero rebelled against: they too distrust and patronize the intelligence of those they would instruct...
None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...