Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge coral rock and slammed it down on my thigh," Rossi said. "They were all kicking me and calling me names. I was down on my back." Rossi struggled into his car and got away as rocks smashed all its windows. Said National Guardsman Art Chambers, who drove a truck into the riot area to bring food to other Guardsmen: "The sniper fire came out of 10,000 different places and you had no idea of where to look...
...recovered. As they neared the East Coast, they began to descend, too fast at first. Said Maxie: "The irony was that despite the danger, this was the nicest part of the flight. At about 3,000 ft., you can hear all the sounds of earth-people talking, car and truck motors. It was very romantic...
...stretch of roadway trembled violently, then ripped away from the bridge. Steel and concrete crashed down, some of it landing on the freighter's bow. A Greyhound bus carrying 23 people plummeted 140 ft. into the water, along with three cars and a pickup truck...
...only survivor of the fall from the bridge was the driver of the pickup truck, Wesley Mclntyre, 56, of Gulfport. His truck first hit the Summit Venture and then bounced into the water. Recalled Mclntyre of his miraculous escape: "The bridge was swaying. I could see the ship, and the end of the bridge was breaking off. I couldn't stop. I just slid, and then I hit the ship and dropped into the water. The next thing I remember I was in the water, and I managed to get the door open. I started swimming to the surface...
...locking out 770,000 unionized workers. Meanwhile, after separate public-sector wage negotiations broke down, four other unions mounted "point strikes" of key government-paid employees, which crippled air and ground transport, curtailed hospital services and closed down the state-run television network. Last week the L.O. pulled out truck drivers who deliver 80% of the country's gasoline and heating...