Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people stumbling along the roads," says Perry. "Hell, I've done it myself." Negotiating a trying intersection in his sewage truck, three-wheeled motorcycles coming at him like torpedoes, Perry recalls that Barrow put up some traffic signs about three years ago. "People just ran over them. Some of us try to remember what the laws used to be." Today there are no stop lights, no signs...
...canyons and the chase began. A border patrolman looking through an infrared nightscope at a hillside spotted four human shapes and summoned a helicopter hovering over a nearby ravine, but by the time the chopper arrived they were gone. Another agent was about to leap out of his truck and arrest three illegals in Moody's Canyon when his radio crackled out news of bigger game: a dozen immigrants heading toward the fields abutting Otay Mesa Road. The patrolman gunned his Ram along rutted dirt paths, dodging boulders placed by pollos to slow him down. When he reached Otay...
...baked Easter cakes, Mother's Day cakes, pound cakes and sheet cakes," Nancy's mother recalls. Nancy made some of her own crafts and set about selling them to her neighbors. When her turn came, she took off so fast that she passed up the press truck and had to be called back. "I felt nervous," she said afterward. "There were a lot of people. But I was proud...
From there the mines were trans ported by ship to Pakistan's Makran coast. The CIA Afghans met the arms there and drove them to a rendezvous with the mujahedin in a desolate area near the Afghan border. The guerrillas took the arms away in a Soviet-made truck; when that vehicle broke down, they switched to camels. Upon arrival at the outskirts of Kabul, the mujahedin opened the boxes and carefully packed each mine in a mixture of camel dung, mud and straw-the mate rials that local peasants use to build walls. Finally, more than two weeks...
...month in long-distance calls, customers become eligible for reductions on Polaroid cameras, airline tickets and nights in a Howard Johnson's motel. If callers reach out and touch someone often enough or long enough, they can talk themselves into $500 off a Toyota truck. The A T & T plan is aimed at helping the company hang on to its dominance of the $45 billion U.S. longdistance market...