Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...require a lot of air, which the M-1 takes in through a defective filter that tends to get clogged with sand. And they also need a lot of fuel (much more than the M-60), so the M-1 has to be followed into battle with a fuel truck Each of these miracle fighting machines costs a meager $2.7 million...
...state assemblymen, federal congressmen, senators and state governors, the voters delivered an unmistakable rebuff to the military-sponsored authoritarian regime. At week's end, results were still trickling in from the balloting exercise, in which voters in Brazil's remote Amazonian hinterlands were forced to travel by truck, airplane or even dugout canoe in order to register their electoral preference...
...happened two weeks ago, but because of restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
Students have began to ignore the frequent alarms, and the Cambridge fire department has started responding with less than half its normal complement of equipment. Bossert added, saying. "If we had a real fire, we wouldn't have a ladder truck to get people down...
...cabin at the Mountain View Motel Court in the sylvan Shenandoah Valley. Last Monday he drunkenly fired a shotgun at his cabin door, and the motel owner suggested he leave. Mulcahy lugged five suitcases, three of them packed with his files on Wilson and Terpil, out to his pickup truck. The motel owner locked the door and left; Mulcahy apparently stayed. Early the next morning, after a chill night of 40° temperatures, his body was found slumped against his cabin. His pants were around his ankles. Inside the cabin were a dozen empty wine bottles...