Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoop. In Topeka, Kans., the State Journal headlined a story on the city's new hook-&-ladder truck, NOW BRING ON YOUR TEN-FLOOR FIRE, two minutes after publication sent reporters to a fire in the ten-floor Hotel Kansan...
...near his office. Nowadays, he goes home to his wife, a nurse from Minsk whom he met and married in Brooklyn. Ben-Gurion has no close personal friends, but he is widely respected for his ability and his unassuming simplicity. Last week, on a road near Tel Aviv, a truck ground to a stop and the driver signaled for help. Ben-Gurion and a young aide happened to be in a car behind. The 63-year-old Premier of Israel got out and helped push the truck while his young companion stood guard with a rifle to keep down possible...
Shaffer hesitated. Then, while a policeman named Leonard Conn covered him with a Tommy gun, he jumped up on the truck's framework, lifted the canvas which shielded Daniels. The youth had five pistols and three rifles beside him. But he called, "Don't shoot! Tell me what to do!" and climbed out, trembling...
...night of June 16 John secreted Bigart in a compartment, marked "reserved for invalids," of a train bound" for Macedonia. Next afternoon, at stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled by mule and on foot over rugged mountain trails, always in guerrilla hands, never sure that he would not meet the same fate as Polk...
...eight, Mel was hit by a truck outside his home, and his left leg was shattered one inch below the hip. His running career almost ended before it started. "I was fouled up for six months," he says. "I still remember lying on that hospital bed with my leg jacked up in the air by ropes and pulleys. I had to lie a little about no broken bones when I went into the Navy...