Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poughkeepsie, Buffalo, Philadelphia, New York, and Westchester will be the stopping points in a series of one-night stands which will occupy the entire vacation of both the cast and stage crew. The show, along with actors, stagehands, and musicians will be moved both by train and truck after each performance...
Routine. In Nasonville, R.I., Howard Staples, who lives near a highway curve, took it philosophically when an 8½-ton truck plowed into his house, barely bypassed his wife, crashed to a stop four feet from his sleeping son: it was the 20th vehicle to hit his house in 18 years...
Midafternoon, the two sentries patrolling the entry through the barbed wire to Goldsmith House were startled by a small explosion in the rear of the building. Then bullets whizzed around them. One soldier fell, dead. A truck rumbled through the wire opening. Covered by a spray of machine gun and rifle fire from nearby buildings, three men dashed to the truck. Out of it and into the club's door and open windows they heaved suitcases. In a moment there was a heavy explosion. Hours later, when the rubble had been combed, the British announced the toll: 16 killed...
...event of the day was a 2,500-meter race for "women aces," featuring 40 French entries and seven Russians. The Russian entries fell into two types: the gaunt, harassed and rangy (like Champion Irene Zaitseva), and those built like truck drivers (two of them were, in fact, truck drivers...
Small merchants lost trade; florists found that people who could not read about deaths or weddings did not send flowers. A cinema hired a sound-truck to hawk its shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...