Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student paper yesterday quoted Virginia State Police as saying they saw beer cans rolling out of the truck at the scene of the accident. But David Trinkle, president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, said the driver. David Holmes, had told police he had one beer and had passed the police's non-intoxication test...
Holmes is being charged only with reckless driving. Police said the truck was on the wrong side of the two-lane highway, but are still uncertain whether the truck overturned onto the Volkswagen or the ear ran into the truck...
...Chicago, some 160,000 commuters who normally ride the train to work suddenly were forced to take to the highways in cars and buses, producing traffic jams up to 17 miles long. In St. Louis, General Motors shut down its truck plant and laid off 2,350 workers after running out of parts usually delivered by rail. And in Maine, the Acton Corp., the largest purveyor of brown eggs in the country, narrowly averted a foul-up when it sent five trucks to bring in 100 tons of corn, thereby ensuring that its 4 million DeKalb hens would not miss...
...much. "People just don't know what is going on," said Alex Harrison, a retired American buying Kahlua liqueur (not banned) in Juárez last week. Among the horror stories is the saga of Bob Walz, 60, of Tucson, who filled spare tanks in his pickup truck with 250 gal. of diesel fuel in Mexico at 16? a gal. He was arrested at the border for "disrupting the economy of Mexico" and spent five nights in jail...
Houses were ripped from their foundations, and residents suffocated in their beds. Antoniel Garcia, a truck driver was awakened in time to pull his family to safety on the roof of his house. He watched as successive torrents swept cars, furniture and screaming townspeople into a nearby ravine "It will take months to find all the bodies," he said. By week's end estimates of the dead exceeded 300 in that region of the country...