Word: truck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walked to our bikes, lime green-uniformed police officers, on foot and motorcycle, pushed us aside, clearing the way for an entourage. "They're going to bring the prisoners out," Chong-yi said Car after car, motorcycle after motorcycle drove past, us. Finally, a tall, open-bed truck drove past, lined on all four sides by helmeted police, equipped with machine guns. A skinny man, hair shorn to the scalp and clothed in a black smock, stood in the front, right behind the truck cab. He wore a sign printed with four characters, around his neck...
...couple of weeks ago, Charlie--now a truck driver in Salem. with a wife and two daughters--heard something on the news about the Fernald Science Club. Since then, as the true nature of the club's activities have become known, his life has been chaos, filled with meetings with investigators, lawyer, even Senator Kennedy. He's been interviewed by dozens of journalists, and has appeared on the local TV news several times...
...grueling sport. Tough, self-sufficient and bruised well beyond her years, Harding has never known stability either on the rink or at home. She moved between eight different houses in six communities in her first 18 years, during which her father Al, who has variously driven a truck, managed apartments and worked at a bait-and-tackle store, was her best friend. He gave her her first gun, a .22, when she was five, taught her to hunt and fish and fix a transmission. Her parents' marriage fell apart in 1985, and two years later her mother married James Golden...
...Very often the recognition comes only in retrospect. A person is in immediate danger -- the car stalled in the deadly snowstorm, the small plane lost in the fog, the swimmer too far from shore. And emerging from the moment's desperation comes some logical form of rescue: a tow-truck driver, a voice from the radio tower, a lifeguard. But when the victim is safe and turns to give thanks, the rescuer is gone. There are no tire tracks in the snow. There is no controller in the tower. And there are no footprints on the beach...
...catalogue reads, "Add a fun and festive air to your holiday table. Our exclusive reindeer are handmade of iron. Set of two, $29.95." Why not add the weight of a small truck to your holiday table by buying an army of 66 iron reindeer? Or, for those who like the glitter of gold and the freshness of fruit, a collection of 200 pieces of gold-painted fruit? Or the gift that keeps on giving--50 years' worth of the Museum of Modern Art's 4-foot wide `Stendig' calendar. All from Crate and Brattle, 48 Brattle Street...