Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early parole, judicial immunity and protection, Almeida agreed to testify about past crimes. One was the murder of William Logan. Almeida told the police he had driven Aleman to Logan's home. Officials surmised that Aleman was after Logan because the Teamster had refused to help steal truck cargoes...
...with titles like Death of a Deb; Flash, sports entrepreneur and president of the North American Curling League, Stella the Divorcee, an oversexed blob usually clad in "Omar the Tentmaker" originals who does things Erica Jong is afraid to even dream about; and Lizzie, a confirmed epicurean who thinks truck stops are the "best places...
...incident that shocked the world was an assault on the Arab village of Deir Yassin in April 1948. Begin claimed that the Irgun warned the villagers to leave Deir Yassin before the attack; in fact, the truck carrying the hit team's loudspeaker fell into a ditch. Using Sten guns, rifles, hand grenades and long Arab knives, Begin's men massacred more than 200 villagers, mostly old men, women and children. Many were mutilated and the women raped...
...return the government to its owners. In a stadium filled with students who resisted the army takeover, Victor Jarre, a young folksinger, is beaten to death, but he continues to sing "Venceremos"--we will win--until he is killed. Bodies floating in a river, bodies loaded on a truck--any U.P. supporters who survived did so by luck...
Beep. Beep. A small black box in the pocket of an Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...