Word: truck
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...