Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Kilpatrick is right according to common law, but not according to Chapter XV, Article 25, Oklahoma Statutes of 1942, Sect. 1931, which says: "Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of a building, room, booth, tent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel, or other structure or erection in which any property is kept, with intent to steal therein or to commit any felony, is guilty of burglary in the second degree...
...When the trucks stopped rolling and the threat of food shortages became very real, the British threw in what Washington has so often in the past considered the final, unanswerable weapon--the troops. The response was immediate, and directly adverse to what Americans, judging from past faith in the efficacy of olive drab uniforms and bayonetted rifles, would consider natural. Instead of calling the men back into the driver's seat, the truckers felt disposed to shout "Blacklegs!" at the Tommies who were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing...
...cooperative and sociable people, opening at the slightest touch. But the Wigglesworth gate is a black sheep among gates, his unhappy life as an outcast obviously due to an abnormal mind. Further research has determined the cause of his twisted character to be a midnight accident with a heavy truck gone berserk. Misshapen and bitter Wigglesworth swore to close the Yard to all suspicious characters after dark. At last the mystery of Harvard's iron curtain has been revealed. Freshmen, over sympathetic to the woes of all men, will no longer be afraid of gates, and most important...
Almost simultaneously a quick municipal police raid on Parkhurst's suite in the Back Bay Apartments on 1572 Massachusetts Avenue yielded not only stacks of his fellow students' bursars cards, which he used as false identification to cash his looted checks, but "two truck-loads" of stolen property, according to Chief Inspector P. F. Ready...
According to Leet, the vibrations set up around a house in Cincinnati, for example, due to a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, N. C., would be much greater than those produced by a passing truck or by dynamiting in a quarry only a few miles away...