Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tank's Enemies. Most of the tanks knocked out in World War II have been victims of truck-drawn artillery. Such guns can be hidden in the earth until only the barrel shows, leaving no silhouette for the lumbering tanks to shoot...
Sound War. When the blitz began, sound recording became an effective claymore against rumor. Censorship hid the facts of Liverpool's first severe bombing, and word of mouth had the city anything from pock-marked to a smoking ruin. BBC wheeled a sound truck into Liverpool, got inhabitants to talk into the microphone, recorded the sounds of traffic, of reconstruction, of life going on. The broadcast recording made it clear that Liverpool was unbroken and unafraid...
...morning during the worst of the blitz BBC's Gilliam parked a sound truck near a London shelter to record the comments of East Enders emerging after eight hours underground. A cocky cockney woman grabbed the microphone and said: "If 'itler thinks 'e can win this war by bombin' women and children, 'e's fahnd a big mistyke, that's all. Because we can tyke it, we can tyke it." According to Gilliam, the cockney woman's use of the phrase was the hit, became the popular answer to the blitz...
Housekeeping. In Seeley Lake, Mont., the L. A. Otters watched a grouse fly into the house through a closed window, fly out through another. In Centerville, Iowa, a loaded coal truck entered the house of Mrs. Blanche Heck, pushed her, abed, through the wall into the next room, left her against a hot stove, uninjured. In Hammonton, N.J., a train wrecked a truck driven by Jules Press, who flew into the air accompanied by four blankets, on which he landed, slightly bruised...
...next day we went east, riding in an Army truck accompanied by Father Megan. Trees on the road had been peeled of their bark. Peasants dry and powder the elm bark and then cook it. They also eat leaves, straw roots, cottonseed and water reed...