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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spittle sprayed and adrenaline soared as we unanimously and instantaneously decided, "Tow truck!" Tow truck!" Twenty minutes later our car and Officer Redneck disappeared into the night...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...truck was sent to pull the car out of the hole, Walsh added. "It didn't fully engulf the vehicle. Only the front part fell in," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sinkhole Forms in Street, Nearly Swallows Rabbit | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Fiasco 400, started sputtering on the highway, so Harry pulled into a gas station for help. "Sorry, no mechanics, only gas!" shouted the attendant. "How can you call this a service station?" yelled Harry. He went to the bank to get some emergency cash for a tow truck, only to find the automatic teller machine out of order, again. "Real nice service!" he muttered. Then Harry decided to use a credit card to buy a tool kit at the Cheapo discount store, but he couldn't find anyone to wait on him. "Service! Anyone, please! Help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service: Pul-eeze! Will Somebody Help Me? | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...scene was Independence Square in N'Djamena, capital of the war-torn Central African state of Chad, and the crowd of 200,000 was the largest the city had ever seen. Facing the podium from the flatbed of a ten-wheel German truck were 21 Libyan prisoners of war, some of them wounded and all of them disheveled and frightened. For a moment a heavy silence hung over the square. Then, as a great roar rose from the crowd, hundreds of people ran toward the vehicle, throwing sticks and stones. The Libyans cowered to protect themselves against the onslaught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: War by Proxy in the Dunes | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...creation of an image. The 18-year-old student began brokering sales for a Seattle truck manufacturer. Soon all kinds of businessmen, assuming he was influential in Saudi Arabia, began offering him deals. "My life-style was my only way of making important contacts. I had put together a track record. But that was not enough. I would spend money in order to justify my request to be on prize society and business guest lists. In a few years everybody wanted to be on my guest lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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