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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, he found Bhamdun a shambles and deserted, except for Druze soldiers. Roofs had collapsed, window frames were stained black by fires, and smoke curled from several stone villas. Near by, in the Druze town of Sofar, militiamen carried rocket launchers and ammunition to a white Toyota pickup truck from a small stone church that was serving as a supply depot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Peace Keeping Gets Tough | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...actually stools with a seat and a padded knee rest sloped in a way that forces the user to have proper posture. One Chicago distributor expects to sell 15,000 of the chairs this year, up from less than 1,000 in 1979. Another popular item, particularly favored by truck drivers and police officers, is the Sacro-Ease, a plastic or velour car seat that provides support for the small of the back. Made by McCarty's of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Sacro-Ease retails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Relief | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

After the ceremonies were over, Aquino's plain wooden coffin, draped with the Philippine national flag, was carried out of the church by 16 pallbearers amid cheers and chants of "Ninoy. Ninoy." When the coffin was placed atop the flower-bedecked platform of a flatbed truck, a crowd that had gathered before dawn went wild. Police estimated that, despite torrential rains, more than 1 million people had gathered along the 19-mile route between the Santo Domingo Church and the Manila Memorial Park cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Mass Requiem in Manila | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...into Macarelli's Bar in East Cambridge and ask the truck drivers and meat packers that drink there what they think of Harvard. They'll tell you that it gobbles up all the property in Cambridge and is populated with strange and eccentric people...

Author: By Alfred E. Vellucci, | Title: The View From City Hall | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...been nearly two years since a group of self-styled revolutionaries shocked the nation by holding up an armored truck in Rockland County, N.Y., killing a Brink's guard and, in a subsequent Shootout, two local police officers. It was quickly apparent that the attack was not merely a last violent gasp of the radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Trials on Twin Tracks | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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