Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instants later, the jet smashed through a fence at the end of the runway. It crossed a busy highway, hit a truck and two cars, rammed into a shed and finally came to rest in a stubble field. Awash in jet fuel, the aircraft quickly caught fire. Said Irving Blatt, a professor at Rutgers University, who was sitting across from one of the stewardesses: "I saw the horror on her face as she looked at the back of the plane. When I turned, I saw the smoke and flames-at first outside and then almost immediately in the cabin...
Harvard police responded to the scene after being notified by a Lowell security guard. Cambridge firefighters were also on the scene with a ladder truck...
...anxious to set out again for parts unknown any time soon. "This three-year odyssey has exorcised my wanderlust with a vengeance," said Fiennes. "I have had more than enough." The Transglobe's return to England capped a weekend marked by maritime achievement. Bill Dunlop, 41, a former truck driver from Maine, sailed his 9-ft. ⅞-in. sailboat, Wind's Will, into Falmouth after a 78-day voyage across the Atlantic. Dunlop broke a record set only two weeks before for an Atlantic crossing in the smallest boat. Ashby Harper, 65, an Albuquerque headmaster, became the oldest...
...from bland to bludgeon: Class of 1984. Mark Lester, who has put some zing into his earlier melodramas (Truck Stop Women, Stunts), here borrows from George Armitage's cult Gothic, Massacre at Central High, to create an adolescent colony as teeming and desolate as an American Gulag. The principal is a blinkered hypocrite; the biology prof (Roddy McDowall) teaches chromosomes at gunpoint. And the school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape...
...Saturday. Police discovered the skeletal remains of two, or possibly three, men in an abandoned well in the woods near Blum, in north Texas. Arrested on suspicion of murder: Jerry Van Pendley and Henry Burton Merrill, a hermit and trapper. Then, on Monday morning, in a Dallas suburb, Truck Driver John Parrish, 46, after an argument with employers over $1,600 in wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant found her son Ricky...