Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...
...Austrians are masters, of course. Scandinavians, Dutch and French are experts. Italians see no point in beer, but what they make is drinkable. Mexicans produce good summer-weight cerveza. Canadian beer includes such hairy, out-of-the-swamp- and-still-dripping specialties as Moosehead, fondly known as Moosebreath by truck drivers in the Northeast. Japanese export beer tends to be thin and disappointing, which is to say it tends to taste far better than our mainstream belly wash. For that matter, Ladakhi Buddhists in remote Himalayan valleys make beer better than ours in open earthenware pots, in which dazed microorganisms...
...unsuccessful attempts were made to break the blockade. In the first, four occupants of a truck loaded with flour were killed when they tried to drive the vehicle into Burj el-Barajneh and were blasted with Amal rockets. Militia officials claimed that the truck was also carrying ammunition for the P.L.O. Then on Friday, after the Amal had agreed to a cease-fire, an Iranian envoy riding in a small U.N. convoy of trucks and an ambulance was killed when the vehicles were halted by rocket and machine-gun fire just outside the camp's main gate. Finally...
...propose an official school-wide "Action Man Day". On this day anyone who wants action with the Action Man would be able to call a central operator between specified hours and leave his name and address. These names would then be forwarded to the Action Man via armored truck. The Action Man can then assume that everyone else is either shy or does not want to have any action with...
Outside big cities, many aid workers face constant danger. Guerrillas ambushed a 50-truck relief convoy late last year in southern Sudan, killing ten drivers. In a previous attack, rebels handcuffed truck drivers to their steering wheels and executed them by tossing hand grenades into the cabs. In Mozambique, where resistance fighters are at war with the Marxist government, few foreigners dare venture far from the capital of Maputo or other relatively secure areas. Some who do so never return. When relief workers reached the Indian Ocean port of Vilanculos last year, they found that a five-member East German...