Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grant, 24, whose Age to Age was the first contemporary Christian album to ring up sales of 500,000. At 17 she was touring, accompanying herself on an acoustic guitar; today she and her ten-piece band move around the country in two tractor-trailers, two buses and one truck. She sold out Radio City Music Hall for a concert last year and plans before long to fly as high as those angels she sings about. "I want to play hardball in this business," she says. "I want to be on the same level professionally with performers in all areas...
...Newry operation--dubbed "Bloody Thursday" by the British press--began when two masked I.R.A. men hijacked a truck. Later, the makeshift mortar tubes were bolted onto the flatbed and the vehicle was then driven into town and parked in a vacant lot close to the R.U.C. station. The nine metal tubes on the truck--each 6 ft. long and 6 in. in diameter--were linked by detonating wires, suggesting to police that they had been fired by timing devices. Despite the apparent sophistication of the weapon, not all the shells found their target. Some fell in front of the station...
...ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number of surface- to-air missiles to counter the Soviet Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters that the Sandinistas received last fall. For the past two months, truck convoys have ferried weapons from Honduras, including West German G-3 automatic assault rifles and dynamite...
...have been a hundred dogs barking all the way down the mountain. My heart was in my mouth." Levin hiked for two hours before reaching a main highway. There he heard "a dog and human voices. I thought my kidnapers were at my heels, so I hid under a truck. But when I saw it was Syrian soldiers, I gave myself...
...Philip has taken a job driving a milk truck from Minnesota to Illinois; he travels twelve days out of every 14. Debbie works as a licensed practical nurse. The two jobs contribute about $1,000 a month to keep the dairy operation and a smattering of beef cattle going. The farm's electric bill alone often runs to $600 a month...