Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defying their efforts. Between burnt-out patches, we caught occasional glimpses of soldiers in full battle gear breasting through deep elephant grass, rifles at the ready. Small contingents behind sandbagged revetments guarded scores of bridges over rivers now swelling with muddy water. Scanning the road ahead, the lead truck's driver strained to see road patches that might be innocent potholes or pressure mines embedded in the highway. So far, no mines have turned up on A4, but the guerrillas have begun planting them on less secure roads, carefully masking the gouges in the paving with a layer...
...Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol headquarters. There, dispatchers record the location of the box and call for a tow truck, ambulance, fire engine or squad car. Help usually reaches the motorist within 30 minutes...
...good time to stop walking through the dark places in Cambridge late at night (I haven't stopped, though), and a good time to stop flirting with danger when I cross streets around the Square (I haven't stopped that, either). As I walked, the tow truck passed me, dragging the battered Volkswagen. There was wet blood on the wheel...
...came out of the Common I saw the lights of police cars and tow trucks at a corner ahead and hurried to join the onlookers. There was a flattened Dodge Dart sitting in the middle of the road. A tow truck was trying to pull it apart from a shiny, twisted Volkswagen Beetle resting against the curb. One of those flashy low sports cars sat on the other curb, its fiberglass body shattered in pieces on the tar. A fourth car had already been hauled off--only a broken headlamp remained. The passing traffic beat an empty rhythm...
...people at the scene were too familiar: a driver wandered in a daze around the bent cars, a crowd of people stood and stared; a woman sat on the ground with her head in her hands; a policeman tried to keep things moving. The tow truck creaked as it dragged the two cars out of each other's steel embrace, but the people made no sound. An insistent flash from the policeman's cruiser froze the image in blue once every second...