Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selection. Near Long Beach, Calif., Tony and Henry Freese thought fast when their milk-and-butter truck caught fire, quenched the flames with milk, saved the butter...
...young, but her face was pale and pinched and she had a spot of grey hair as big as a saucer atop her head. Of her five small children two were burned to death when the Indonesians set fire to their evacuation truck during the street fighting at Surabaya last October. A third child was kidnapped and has not been heard of since. The mother was shot through the ankle...
...clambered out of a truck, they were properly bewildered. They didn't know exactly where they were, or why. They only knew that they had volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty. They did not know that some of them would soon be guerrilla leaders in the Burma jungles, social scientists in London, bridge dynamiters or underground agents in some enemy-occupied city. This comfortable country estate, some 40 minutes out of Washington in the gently rolling Virginia hills, did not look hazardous. The 18 men did not know that it was the Office of Strategic Services' Station...
...high, barbed-wire fence was small protection last week against the drift of fine snow across Indianapolis' icy airport. The fence was no protection against questions, either. But it served notice that CAA's Ground Controlled Approach (G.C.A.) equipment, housed in a chunky Army truck and trailer, was still a military secret...
...picture opens, Corporal Hargrove and his muddy unit are trying to push a truck out of a ditch in France; when it ends they are deep in the same trouble. In the interim Hargrove has overwhelmed a French town by mere awkward charm, been energetically pursued by the mayor's vivacious daughter (Jean Porter), taken a number of Nazis prisoner and been elaborately swindled, along with Private Mulvehill...