Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mercenaries. But the premature Shootout left the scheme in shambles and the first wave of attackers stranded at the airport-until they captured the control tower and gave the Air India plane permission to touch down. The landing was nearly a disaster; the pilot just missed a Seychelles army truck parked on the runway and was forced to hop over another, which the plane did brush with a wing flap. "I'm afraid you have arrived at a most unfortunate moment," one of the mercenaries told the 79 startled passengers and crew on board as mortar and machine...
...involve almost as much hassle and humbling as being drummed out of the regiment. Endless hours must be spent in lines leading to sometimes abusive traffic-court clerks who treat parking offenders as if they were homicide suspects. Policemen and judges often heap scorn on a miscreant. Tow-truck operators can be just as surly...
...sustaining pedal down and the dynamic level up. Years later, an American sophisticate in Paris, he collaborated on an opera with Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, fashioning deceptively simple, homey music out of "Pigeons on the grass alas." His 1937 score for Filling Station, with its truck drivers, state troopers and gun-toting gangsters, became the first successful all-American ballet. Although serious composers generally have shunned film scores as hack work, he produced seven of them, and in 1949 collected a Pulitzer Prize for one, Louisiana Story. As music critic of the New York Herald Tribune from...
...game ended abruptly as the ball was pushed over a locked fence, and Mr. Capiello, with other campus policemen, quickly deflated it and drove it away in a pick-up truck...
Though Gibbs has not yet re-created the county truck accident, he has wrecked three $3,000 Chevrolet Vegas and a $4,300 Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the interests of Merritt's clients. His fee: anywhere from $2,500 to $15,000. The motorcycle case grew out of an accident that killed both the driver and a passenger after the vehicle went out of control. The passenger's family retained Merritt to sue the manufacturer, claiming that the accident occurred when one side of a poorly designed handle bar gave way and the driver lost his balance. Merritt...