Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brotherhood closes in, Magnus sets the crooked record straight, or as straight as possible under the circumstances. There is much here about the routines of spying: keeping in touch with your "Joes," the odd assortment of informants who provide trade figures, truck movements and the seemingly meaningless details that may or may not add up to something back at the Firm's headquarters. Magnus' operations take him to Vienna, Prague and Washington, where he concludes that "no country was ever easier to spy on . . . no nation so open-hearted with its secrets, so quick to air them, share them, confide...
Last October a rash of bank holdups and armored-car robberies began in south Dade County. In one incident, a guard manning a Brink's truck was shot in the back by a gunman. As he lay bleeding on the ground, a second man walked up and shot him twice with an automatic rifle. Incredibly, he survived. The crooks often used stolen cars for their getaway vehicles. In two instances the automobiles had belonged to young men who were gunned down while target shooting in an abandoned quarry. The FBI soon joined the Florida police in a search...
...build and drive a class of dragster known as the top fueler--rail thin, about 20 ft. long, with big, sticky rear wheels and a high wing in back. Behind the driver, the engine throws flame from its exhaust headers and makes a noise that starts like a garbage truck under heavy gunfire and increases rapidly to an apocalyptic roar. "It'll blow your nose for you," one fan declares...
...group of Boston-area college students and other activists yesterday loaded a truck with money and medical supplies to help rebuild the ravaged National University of El Salvador...
...military technology used to subjugate the Soviet Union's neighbors and threaten American national security. The Ford Motor Company constructed an automobile plant at Gorkii which produces motors for the T-72 tank, the workhouse of the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Swindell-Dressler helped build the Kama River Truck plant which also produces vehicles used by the Red Army in Afghanistan. The Bryant Chucking Grinder Company of Vermont sold the Kremlin the ball bearings without which the construction of the SS-20 missile would have been impossible. J. Fred Bucy, president of Texas Instruments, itself a trading partner of Moscow...