Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to witnesses, the worker was standing on the truck's back ledge when he lost his balance and fell head first onto the pavement...
Before the campus daily came off the presses, however, 12 students took matters into their own hands. The Dartmouth Committee to Beautify the Green Before Winter Carnival (DCBGBWC), equipped with four sledgehammers and a flatbed truck, attempted to tear down the shanties. Calling themselves "environmentalists" and "trash collectors," the anti-shanty dozen planned to donate the debris to local charities "to help provide fuel for heating stoves," according to a statement they handed to policemen arriving on the scene five minutes after demolition began...
...election was marred by violence, which continued yesterday. A gunman fired at about 50 Aquino supporters in an open truck from which Aquino had delivered a speech earlier, killing a 20-year-old man and wounding a woman...
Aquino had stood on the truck that later was fired upon to speak to supporters at an outdoor Catholic Mass...
...given to Lowry. The experience of walking into the ruined Buttle home and seeing the almost catatonic widow gives Lowry the first intimation of the evil behind the checks and receipts which pass over his desk every day. It also gives him a glimpse of Jill Layton, a truck driver whom he recognizes as the maiden in his dreams...