Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reward. We stumbled along for hours. Once we almost fell into a rock quarry. When we got near the border, Agnes couldn't carry Robbie any more, so I took him, and he started to cry. We thought they would hear us at the checkpoint, but a huge truck came rumbling through, so nobody heard us. We kept going through the woods until
...resulted in few indictments and even fewer attempts to curb organized crime. At length Bolles wearied of what he came to regard as windmill tilting and asked to be taken off the crime beat. But he could not stay away. When Adamson, a disreputable greyhound breeder and former tow truck operator, telephoned him three weeks ago with information purporting to link top Arizona Republicans to land fraud schemes, Bolles rushed off to meet him at a Phoenix hotel. While he waited, someone apparently placed the explosive charge in his car, parked in the hotel lot. Adamson failed to appear...
...Control. Reinforced by antiriot squads and attack-dog units, police sealed off the township; army helicopters flew over Soweto dropping tear-gas canisters on the crowd. By this time, though, the students were out of control; scores of cars and at least one beer truck were set afire; libraries and even health clinics were stoned. As darkness fell, adults joined the youths in looting stores. The death total for the day was estimated at 25; some of the victims, police said, were killed by what they called "freelance vandals," which could well be true, since Soweto...
...directors seem intent on pandering to the yens of teen-agers with such potboiler adventures as Nihon Chimbotsu (Submersion of Japan) and with action comedies centering on everyday life like Turaku Yam (Truck Rascals). Another new trend is toward the realistic documentation of World War II. Advance into the Pacific made use of combat footage shot by both American and Japanese cameramen. Hero in the Sky, a film about one of Japan's greatest wartime aces, may end up violating the postwar taboo on celebrating Japanese feats...
...only thing I knew about England," admitted an Army truck driver from Massachusetts, "was that it was an island off the coast of France." More sophisticated compatriots knew it was filled with lords, butlers and detectives. Thanks to Hollywood, the English were considerably better informed about America. Everyone knew the U.S. was filled with cowboys, gangsters, slaves, millionaires and crooners...