Word: truck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Doug* took his older brother's Ford pickup truck, which has a nice deep rumble and gives Doug's budding tough-guy image some clout. With a blue baseball cap tipped low over his eyebrows, the slightly built sophomore waited in the parking lot, smoking Kools one after another and staring awkwardly at other male customers as they stepped out of their cars. Finally, one man nodded slightly in reply and waved Doug over to his car. Doug walked slowly, attempting a saunter. The man popped his trunk open, and Doug peered inside at a shiny pile of handguns...
With only $25 in his wallet -- earnings from mowing a few lawns -- he quickly settled on a used Remington semiautomatic 12-gauge shotgun. He was pleasantly surprised by its heft as he slid it into a canvas bag and scurried back to his truck. At 16, Doug was finally a force to be reckoned with at Father Flanagan High, in his white, working-class neighborhood of Benson and on the streets of Omaha. "If you have a gun, you have power. That's just the way it is," he says. "Guns are just a part of growing up these days...
...four months, Doug figures, he's done nine drive-by shootings, aiming mostly at cars and houses. "It's basically revenge, that sort of thing," he says. Like when he shot five times at a truck that belonged to the boyfriend of a judge's daughter -- a roundabout response to the judge's conviction of several of his friends for various offenses. "I'm not actually aiming at anybody," he says. "But once my older brother missed a baby's head by a quarter of an inch. It was in all the news...
Doug floors his Ford truck through a yellow light, turns sharply and then slows, carefully checking out the other cars as he cruises the largely white working-class neighborhoods of Benson. He points to a light blue, wood-frame house. Dozens of pellet holes from two shotgun blasts scar the wall on either side of the front door. In the driveway, an elderly man tinkers with a blue Chevy Caprice, which is also riddled with holes. Doug drives by slowly, confident he won't be recognized. "We did that three months ago. Monday night about...
...insidious and sometimes groundless questioning of Anita Hill two years ago evoked a personal injury lawyer trying to suggest that perhaps the defendant meant to drive his Yugo into the client's oncoming Mack truck...