Word: truck
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...looked like a real football game, a contest that would signal the coming of fall. It was even televised, and the truck with the WGBH camera on it went lumbering along the sidelines throughout. The brand-new Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field, all white and Columbia blue, almost sparkled in the sunshine. The assembled fans did their best to appear unimpressed, but the return of football to Manhattan after a 17-month absence put a note of hope into...
Valerie is a New Jersey mother of two boys, age two and three, whom she describes as "little monsters full of mischief." Her husband works as a truck driver, and money is tight. The family of four is living with her mother while they save for an apartment of their own. One day last March, Valerie, 23, who prefers to remain anonymous, saw the following advertisement in a local New Jersey paper: Surrogate mother wanted. Couple unable to have child willing to pay $10,000 fee and expenses to woman to carry husband's child. Conception by artificial insemination...
Suddenly a flatbed truck rolled into view, escorted by two motorcycle policemen and by lines of yellow-shirted marchers waving small yellow flags. Aboard the truck was a nearly 7-ft.-high, flower-bedecked bronze statue of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such...
...again," said De Lorean after the verdict was announced. "Hopefully this terror and horror that me and my family have been through for the last two years won't be wasted." In 1975, 2½ years after leaving as executive in charge of all North American car and truck manufacturing at General Motors, he set up his own dream-car company. It is now in receivership, though its gull-winged, stainless-steel sports cars are suddenly selling rapidly as collectors' items. He hopes to go back into the automobile business, said De Lorean last week, "the only thing...
Before the seven-truck convoy of Ugandan soldiers moved into Namu-gongo, the village was known primarily for its shrine commemorating the martyrdom of 45 Christians who were burned alive in 1885. But in a modern-day massacre, by the time the troops left last May they had ransacked the town, executed an Anglican priest and tortured and killed as many as 100 villagers. When army units swept north through the Karamoja region, there were reports of more atrocities. After driving more than 20,000 farmers and cattle breeders from their homes, the soldiers obliterated villages, killed livestock and destroyed...