Word: truck
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...Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail of bullets. Next night, 50 armed men searched the home of Salvador Rivera Hernandez, 39, in a working-class suburb of San Salvador. They marched Rivera and his wife into the street and shot them dead. Later in the week, a pickup truck carrying ten armed men pulled up to a cemetery in San Salvador. Interrupting a funeral service, they pointed to five cemetery workers and ordered them into the truck. That night the bodies of four of the workers, clad only in underpants, were dumped at the cemetery's gate...
Leaving the docking facilities at Hampton Harbor at 9.a.m., 96-wheeled truck transported the $3 million cylindrical vessel to Seabrook over a seven-mile stretch of road, which Gov. Hugh Gallen (D.-N.H.) had ordered blockaded. About 150 New Hampshire state troopers and 21 Massachusetts state troopers escorted the truck "for protection purposes," Jennifer Murphy, Gallen's press secretary said yesterday...
...that night there were a large number of spectators around, and our intention was to get the ambulance to the morgue before the crowd gathered. The honor guard, along with a Navy enlisted-man driver, the other duty officer and me, rode to the morgue on the guard truck at a high speed, believing that the ambulance was following. When we got there, the ambulance was not to be seen...
...They have valid passports and visas. I obey and enforce the law. I am not here to bandy obscenities with you." Under the protection of the senior Pakistani officer in the region, Major Javid Afrouz, a humane and professional military man, we were protected until we could hire a truck for the ride to the city of Quetta, 400 miles from the troubled border. It was the sweetest ride I have ever...
...explained away as wandering, ectoplasmic neuroses. They are what they are. Bowen's fiction is sometimes as strange as truth. In The Evil That Men Do-, a bored housewife writes a love letter to a man who, unknown to her, has just been run over by a truck. In The Cat Jumps, a couple buys a house whose previous owner had murdered and dismembered his wife ("He put her heart in her hatbox. He said it belonged in there...