Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhere out in the field Haile Selas sie still controlled a sizable body of troops, but the end of his ancient kingdom was rapidly approaching. When no news from the front had reached Addis Ababa for days, Correspondent Steer of the New York Times hopped on a truck with a British Army major to deliver 1,850 home made gas masks to Crown Prince Asfa Wassan's troops at Dessye...
Nearing the city, the first thing they saw was Asfa Wassan's skirmishers, disappearing over the mountain top. Dessye was deserted. An exhausted runner had just arrived from Gerado with news of an advancing column of Italian cavalry followed by tanks, motor trucks. They could only be a mile or two behind him. Just at dusk the Crown Prince came down from his mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British...
With frilly feminism she has no truck. "Millions of women make themselves miserable because their husbands never make love to them," she has said. "These suffering sisters could save themselves nearly all their woe if they would just throw their rosy dreams of how a husband should treat a wife into the discard. . . . A man marries to end romance...
Officials at University Hall had no sooner commenced the day's routine yesterday morning than they were pleasantly surprised by the arrival of a truck driver carrying a large crate of soft drinks. Upon investigation it was learned that this unexpected donation had been sent by Simoneau in return for favors previously conferred...
...finish was as sudden as the start. The hounds were hustled into a truck and carried off; the Yard became quite as ever...