Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathering darkness, the early arrivals among the audience locked arms in front of a large truck, defiantly burst into the chorus of the old radical marching song, We Shall Not Be Moved. Suddenly chunks of a wooden fence railing sailed into the ranks of the defenders. Hurling stones and brandishing clubs, the veterans charged...
...guerrillas this fall. The Communists had fought back hard. Even after being bombed and shelled, many stuck to their pinelog pillboxes, engaged the advancing government troops hand-to-hand. At nightfall, as a weird calm settled over the battlefields, U.N. observers spotted the dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member of the Greek seamen's union, told of his odyssey. He had been recruited by the Communists...
...sunny afternoon last week, the Communists staged a rally of 2,000 strikers at Kemi. A sound-truck of the Finnish-Russian Friendship Society blared: "Come on, boys, let's go and throw out the cops!" The boys went at the police barricade, hurled insults, sticks & stones. The police first tossed a few tear-gas grenades, but when a fresh breeze dispersed the gas, they started shooting as the crowd kept on coming. Two workers were killed. Troops from a nearby garrison finally restored order. The riot's Communist ringleader was put in jail, where he promptly went...
...timetable, the building workers' union-which like most other unions in Finland is infiltrated by Communists-was to strike the day before the Kemi blowup. Next day it was to be the dockers' turn, then the food workers' (including bakers and brewers). At intervals the woodworkers, truck drivers, textile workers and stonemasons were to follow...
...Bronx, Tri-Boro Motors Inc. offered an allowance of $500 "on any truck that will run, creep or crawl into our lot," or $300 on any horse, mule or goat traded in on the purchase of a new Ford truck...