Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan and Shultz deliberately continued to play golf on Saturday, knowing that a sudden return to Washington would fuel speculation. Suddenly, in the afternoon, Reagan took a break for a bizarre reason: a drunken gunman wanting to see him had crashed his pickup truck through a golf course gate and held hostages in the club's pro shop. After trying in vain to talk to the man by telephone, Reagan was whisked back from the 16th hole to the Eisenhower cabin by heavily armed Secret Service agents...
...double act of horror left a tangle of questions. Both truck drivers blew themselves to smithereens when they swerved madly into their targets and detonated their deadly cargoes. But who was behind the attacks? Why was security not more stringent, especially after a nearly identical attack hit the U.S. embassy in Beirut last April, killing 63 people? Can the safety of the Marines now be ensured...
...About 50 truck drivers and warehousemen from the August A. Busch Co. plant picketed outside the museum to show their sympathy for 16 of the distributor's non-union clerical employees who walked off their jobs on October...
...only incident involving strikers occurred on the first day of the picketing, when several union drivers lay down in front of a Budweiser delivery truck to prevent it from leaving the garage. The protesters were arrested by the Cambridge police...
When Marcus Dupree was five, his mother enrolled him in the first grade on the opening day of total integration for the Philadelphia public schools. His father, a man named Connors, was gone. "Dupree" is the surname of his maternal grandfather, a truck driver and occasional preacher. "Marcus" came from Shakespeare, Marc Antony...