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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mayer allowed the hostages inside the monument to leave. As dusk settled, he seemed prepared to spend the night. Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk. A volley of shots from police marksmen rang out; the truck swerved and tipped over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Man's Tragic Protest | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...Marince had a bad accident when he was 17 years old. He was riding in a car that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Power to the Disabled | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

With five goals separating the teams at the first intermission, there was uninspired hook key the rest of the way Red Raider Keb Isel more did his bit to make it took competitive, notching a hat truck in the second stanza But the Burke Chalmers Kukutownzone line struck again, scoring twice in the periods thirteenth minute...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Hands Icemen Their First Setback, 3-1 | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...Santa stationed outside of Manhattan's Bloomingdale's for the Volunteers of America never received such a training "I don't say anything to anyone--if they're going to give, they'll give," he says, identifying himself only as a professional truck driver. "Poor people tend to give more because they know what it's like to need," he adds...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Life Behind the Beard | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...fare well last week. Shareholders of Israel's 34-year-old national airline, El Al, which has long been plagued by deficits and labor unrest, voted to dissolve the company. Professors at Tel Aviv University were on strike, Foreign Ministry employees were threatening to stage a walkout, and truck drivers, angry about new taxes, were trying to block the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Word from the Wise | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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