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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks roll past a couple of months ago," says one, referring to the popular uprising against Marcos, "but that was only once." Outside the American embassy, however, enormous concrete flower pots have appeared overnight, apparently as protection against truck bombers. Something, the Aussies admit, could be afoot...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: After the Revolution | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...pine bench he had seen. He said after that he might run around in the weedfield until he got lost, and maybe he did, too, because I only saw him one other time before I saw him dead at his funeral--he was hit by a post office truck in a Florida crosswalk on his way to Disney World--and that one other time I saw him was when Aunt Barbara got married to a man who owned a soda-bottling company...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: A Writer in Writer's Clothing | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

After a trial before a People's Tribunal composed of a lawyer, truck driver and laborer, Hasenfus was sentenced last month to 30 years for terrorism and other crimes. He was being held in the Tipitapa prison outside Managua when he was freed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasenfus Home After Nicaraguan Pardon | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

...tossed myself over the barrier and started across the field when I saw that there was someone at work over to my left. A group of people picking, a smaller group of people watching, a truck, baskets of strawberries, German shepards--big ol' dogs. Inching closer, the pickers were darker than those watching...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Magical Mystery Tour | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

...massive demonstration of pro-Aquino, anti- Enrile sentiment to mark Olalia's funeral. On Thursday a huge but orderly procession for the slain labor leader wound for miles through the streets of Manila. Waving red flags and placards, a crowd of more than 100,000 followed a flower-bedecked truck bearing the coffins of Olalia and his driver. J.V. Bautista, a leader of the leftist Bayan political coalition, hinted that Marcos backers might have been responsible for Olalia's death. But he spoke for many when he added, "That doesn't mean that Enrile is not involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Cory Shows a Steely Side | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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