Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quake, part of the terror was the unexpectedness of the tremors on a warm spring evening and the fact that they began in darkness. "We had just turned on the TV after dinner," said one resident of Buia (pop. 8,000). "At first I thought it was a truck passing. But then the roof caved in on my mother. She died instantly." In neighboring Maiano (pop. 6,200), hit hardest by the earthquake, a trattoria collapsed on 40 customers dining inside. With power gone and no lights to work by, rescuers could do little more than pull blindly...
Shortly before the Parliament was to convene on Saturday morning, artillery and machine-gun fire reverberated throughout the capital of Beirut. House Speaker Kamal Asaad was forced to drive to the session guarded by a six-truck convoy of troops; other Deputies were escorted by gunmen from their own local militias. The Mediterranean villa that serves as a temporary Parliament itself came under heavy fire-though no one was hurt. Still, the fighting failed to deter a quorum of 69 out of 98 members of Parliament from convening. While mortars exploded all around, Sarkis, 51, who is governor of Lebanon...
THIS WAS ALL very depressing, especially on this particular kind of morning. But the final candidacy that ruined my morning was the election for the state senate in my district. Opposing William Brotherton, incumbent and senate president, was Marvin Horan. Marvin Horan is a truck driver-turned-preacher at the First Independent Calvary Baptist Chruch of Witcher's Creek, West Virginia. He is presently appealing his three-year sentence for blowing up Midway Elementary School during the textbook issue. I just didn't want to look at the big pink road map after that...
...farmers ranging far from homes and telephones. The first CB license was not granted until 1947. In the next quar ter-century, only 850,000 CB licenses were issued. Then came the 1973 oil embargo, speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. ("double nickel" in CB argot) and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of lurking cops ("smokey bears") and radar cars ("Kojak with a Kodak"). Television news picked up the story, and the rest is hysteria...
...student porter is guilty of being ungrateful. He had hoped for the mail truck job, riding the range with Joe Perlatonda, leaping at high speed from a silver chariot with canvas bags slung over his shoulder, delivering mail all over campus. The romance of speed and the far-flung foreign niches of Harvard fades away and all he sees is a Hefty trash...