Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to speak, and what I have to say is-get the hell out of here." Spaak went to France when his country fell, escaped through Spain to London, after hiding from Franco's police in the bottom of an orange-laden truck...
...Konrad's campaign had some surprises. It started with a whisper: "No wonder Czisch helps the refugees-he's a Jew!" It grew in volume with the use of a sound truck and another charge: "Czisch is a stooge of the Americans!" On election day Konrad won easily. That night, young men marched the streets of Schwäbisch-Gmünd singing the Horst Wessel song. They stoned the house of Franz Czisch, shouted: "Go to Palestine where you belong!" Then they stoned the windows of Jewish shops...
...Forget Thee . . ." In the battle for the Jerusalem roads (TIME, April 19), the Jews scored a victory. Guarded by 1,000 Haganah soldiers, a convoy of 300 trucks with 1,000 tons of food managed to reach Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. On one truck was printed a Biblical pledge: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning...
...Communists held their last big rally before the ancient Church of Saint John Lateran. From a ten-ton truck decorated with cardboard doves of peace, Palmiro Togliatti spoke to 100,000 Romans. Said he: Alcide de Gasperi had called him a cloven-hoofed man, and he had a good mind to take off his shoe to show that this was a lie. "But it is better to put hobnails in the shoe and kick De Gasperi...
Last November 21-year-old Walter John Cross, a hard-up truck driver, strangled a crippled London watchmaker and snatched his wallet. Three months later Cross was hanged on the gallows of Pentonville Penitentiary. He may have been the last man who will ever be executed in Britain for murder...