Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised New York City is broke. Next door to me on the beach in Hawaii are two ex-New York City firemen who are drawing lifetime pensions of $4,000 and $13,000 per year respectively from the city. Both of them "fell" off the truck, and now New York City is financing their lifetime vacations of surfing and lying on the beach...
Same Questions. Between April and August, the group was moved four times, ultimately being taken by truck up to North Viet Nam. During the journey through the South, their small convoy passed a group of children who shouted excitedly: "The Americans are back! The Americans are back!" Inside North Viet Nam, the missionaries were interned at Son Tay Camp, near Hanoi, which was the target of an abortive raid to release U.S. military prisoners in 1970 (they had been moved elsewhere just before the raid...
...excuse, is based on double takes and spiraling eyes and the ticks and flutters that make a face interesting, as long as the role doesn't demand any grey matter behind it. But Charles Bronson-his features wouldn't twitter a fraction if he were hit by a truck, yet he dominates this picture like the best of them...
...that-it's hard times, brother. Bronson's character is genuine here because the face-the lines and creases and years etched into it-embodies the spirit of the time and the long line of outcasts created by it. It's no fresh-faced Henry Fonda driving an Okie truck to California. When Bronson does something based on emotion, it's especially believable, because it's so animal and visceral and hard to spot, maybe imagined, that you have to listen to his pulse to catch it. And even though he'll never do it again, this one time when...
...become mayor two years ago, the usually conservative former truck driver cast his vote in favor of a liberal city manager in exchange for the opposition's votes for him as mayor. With the bad taste of the incident remaining in the mouths of several Independents, it is unlikely that any election result will see Sullivan back in the mayor's chair when the council reconvenes...