Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British forces moved forward, Hessian grenadiers in fearsome mitred helmets, the Scottish Black Watch regiment resplendent in tartan kilts. Almost as one, the Continentals opened with a fusillade of musket and rifle fire. The British responded with a volley of their own. The smoke cleared. A Red Cross truck lumbered across the field to pick up the fallen, all of them victims of heat exhaustion...
...truck, not a wagon, in the 18th century? Walkie-talkies for the generals? Yes, a few of the historical niceties were ignored last week as the state of New Jersey staged one of the final acts of America's Bicentennial celebration by re-creating the Battle of Monmouth. In the actual engagement, which occurred on June 28, 1778, the forces were evenly balanced at about 12,000 men each. In the 1¾-hr. replay on the site of the original there were some 1,200 patriots and only 600 redcoats, watched by about 75,000 spectators...
...strength to fight off any and all twinges of upper-middle-class guilt. Back to the newspaper, which offers little solace: the holiday weekend; it reports, featured a grand total of 15 murders, not including the 150 or so wounded in the explosion of an ice-cream truck in Manhattan. And the summer hasn't even begun...
...dinner before attending the wedding rehearsal. His father was going to give him money from stock sales, and his sister wanted to borrow his guitar. No sooner had his father greeted him, he says, than three men tied a hood over his head and wrestled him into a truck. After being driven for about an hour, he found himself prisoner in an attic. There he was kept awake for 36 hours and fed only a matzo and a piece of chicken. Day and night young Jewish activists angrily tried to get him to renounce Christianity...
...second test the crucial one. In it, a driver tries to swing a car around an obstacle, then pull back into lane-supposedly simulating the maneuvers a motorist would have to make to avoid a child suddenly darting into the road, say, or an object falling off a truck. When C.U. drivers tried it, the car fishtailed alarmingly and failed to recover. When Chrysler re-created the test for an audience of reporters at its proving grounds in Chelsea, Mich., the company's driver threaded the car flawlessly through a slalom course around pylons...