Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Californian rented a truck for a day and returned it with a nearly empty tank, even though the truck had gone only eleven miles. To discourage similar siphoning, some major auto agencies rented out cars with tanks only one-eighth full. But for the second straight week, most drivers just sat in line for up to five hours, sunbathing, playing Scrabble, writing poetry in response to a San Diego radio station contest, reading magazines and newspapers and exchanging them with others in line. Highway officials reported that driving was down 15% on freeways and as much as 25% on city...
Even so, the two adventurers still did not get their stories totally straight. McLemore said it was a group of bandits who pounced upon them when they landed, "like starving people who find some meat." He claimed that he had escaped with Spradley in a truck and that his companion had been shot after a wild chase. They were left for dead in a desert until the Indians happened upon them, bringing Spradley to a hospital and kidnaping McLemore...
...government spokesman claimed that the shooting had been in retaliation for an assault with an automatic weapon on a passing truck. Authorities reported that one policeman had been fatally wounded in that attack. None of the foreign reporters present at the cathedral, however, saw any such incident...
...hickory, pine and bobolinks that grace the center's 15 acres are not enough, there is what may be termed the reality walk. A peripatetic scholar will stroll to the end of the center's private road and scuff pebbles along Alexander Drive while authentic truck drivers roar past. Then, with perspective restored and the latest Alice-Lucy masterpiece well on the road to digestion, it's back to the study. Or to a seminar. There are four ongoing seminars meeting this year, rather forbiddingly titled "Man and Nature," "Ideals of Education...
...hours encouraging his daughters to sing. Maggie, at 27 the eldest of the sisters, started writing songs at the age of eight. She and Terre performed them first in the family living room in Park Ridge, N.J., then later on the back of a flat-bed truck in nearby shopping centers for the benefit of a local politician and the glory of the Democratic Party. Terre, 26, the most voluble Roche, shipped off a couple of these campaign ditties to the White House for L.B.J. to use in his battle against Barry Goldwater; she also wrote a letter...