Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans asked to see the Great Wall of China, and they were taken on a two-hour bus ride through an oncoming stream of trucks, bicycles, ponies and people and past a majestic mountain range and fields green with bamboo shoots. At the crenelated, 2,400-year-old wall, Steenhoven was moved to comment: "I've seen Hadrian's Wall between Scotland and England, but it's just a pebble by comparison." Back in the capital, the visitors were taken to Tsinghua University, where Cowan and the younger players broke off to play table tennis with some...
...rubber. The subsidiaries are forbidden by the U.S. Government to sell any of 600 "strategic items," but the embargo list leaves plenty of room for trade. General Motors, for example, sold $682,000 worth of diesel engines and spare parts in 1970 to Roberto Perlini Co., an Italian truck manufacturer, who sent them to China along with 80 Perlini trucks...
...convicted of wanton slaughter, but in his private life he is an unlikely villain. He is not a monster, not a callous warrior, not the tattooed caricature of the professional killer who does target practice on weekends and keeps a rifle mounted in the rear window of a pickup truck. In the evening, casually attired in blue jeans or bellbottoms, he could be any young American...
...Most of the toilet plumbing, utilizing sea water, is rusted or jammed and sanitation standards are perilously low. The volunteer nurse has left the island, and the only school has been shut (nearly half of the inhabitants are children under the age of twelve). The island's single truck has broken down...
...honey. Don't be afraid to kill the soldiers when they come.") Pride of Women, in fact, so enraged the clientele at a Louisville bar that the manager sprayed Mace at the group, which fled outside, only to find that an off-duty policeman had riddled their truck's fenders with bullets...