Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honeymoon proved short-lived, as the Hondurans have begun to suspect that the temporary U.S. presence might soon prove permanent. On the streets of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, U.S. servicemen now attract baleful stares. When two G.I.s in a pickup truck hit a local student last May, an angry mob pounced on the vehicle and set it ablaze. Most important, after ousting Alvarez in a barracks coup last April, General Walter López Reyes lost no time in publicly repudiating his predecessor's policy as a "distortion in the use of power, which endangers Honduras' peace-loving...
...beating up all those innocent young girls," as she wryly puts it. Not so, says Peanut Louie: "It looks like she's having fun playing tennis. Even if you get murdered you don't feel so bad." In short, Navratilova is anything but a diesel truck steaming heedlessly toward immortality...
...COMMON complaint, particularly in hard-core auto magaziens, is that bicyclists should be kept off the roads because they don't pay road-use taxes the way cars do at the gas pump or trucks do directly. The argument may sound good, but it doesn't hold water No bicycle ever eroded a road shoulder or made a pothole like an overweighted truck. Bicycling is a cheap clean alternative to driving and should be encouraged if for none other than utilitarian reasons. When possible, cities should build bike paths like those along the Charles River. But in cramped cities where...
WITH A SHRILL blast on the whistle between his teeth the bicyclist announces his apporoach. He whizzes between a Chevy parked at the curb and a bread truck pulled up at the red light and heads into the intersection. There is an oncoming car in the cross street but it is still half a block away, and with a couple of quick pumps on the pedals, the bicyclist is clear...
CONVICTED. Samuel Brown, 43, ex-convict; of murder and robbery in the 1981 Brink's armored-truck holdup at a Nanuet, N.Y., mall in which a guard and two police officers were killed; in White Plains, N.Y. Brown was the last of the nine Brink's suspects in custody to be prosecuted...