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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until 1987, , when a new line of midsize vehicles is scheduled to be turned out at a plant being built in Canada at Brampton, Ont. For now, the biggest thing AMC has going for it is its popular Jeep. The company in the fall will introduce a Jeep pickup truck. AMC cannot turn to its partner and part owner, French automaker Renault, for help. Renault is in even worse shape. It lost $1.4 billion last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Expensive, Old and Inefficient | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Indeed, according to many experts in the field, a well-financed group could build one that could fit into a pickup truck or a station wagon. In fact, the U.S. military has developed a 58-lb. bomb powerful enough to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge. Part of the problem is that the principles of bomb building are well known. In fact, the basic elements of the technology can be found in reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana. The trick is to place two slugs of plutonium close together in a container similar to a gun barrel, then smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backpack Nuke | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...author is a sometime trucker who, for the past seven years, has been using a three-quarter-ton pickup to deliver honey from her bee farm to retailers around the country. She sleeps in truck stops because they are safe and coffee is always available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...ruins of Berlin in 1945 leading the way. Young soldiers wearing World War II Red Army uniforms followed, carrying vintage rifles and submachine guns. Behind them, enveloped in clouds of white diesel smoke, rumbled armor and artillery from the '40s: T-34 tanks, SU-100 assault guns and truck-mounted Katyusha rockets once known as "Stalin organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe the Divisive | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

JOHN C. BERG, a Government graduate student, wasn't just kicked out of Harvard. He was sent to jail for nine months. After release from prison, he drove a laundry truck. When he returned to campus, administrators took him to court on trespassing charges, for which he was fined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Continue the Boycott | 5/15/1985 | See Source »

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