Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Challenger shuttle and the disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have found that in each case, critical errors were made by people struggling with unusual work schedules and lack of sleep. The two nuclear plant accidents happened in the wee hours of the morning. Similarly, most truck wrecks related to fatigue occur between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. "Shift workers classically have to perform when their brains are trying to put them to sleep," observes Dr. Charles Czeisler of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "They are fighting the internal clock." Many workers run on automatic pilot...
...knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat up a psychiatrist and mailed a death threat to Ronald Reagan. Bosket claims to have committed 2,000 crimes by the time...
Championship games are usually followed by scenes of celebration and dejection. Members of the winning team pile on each other. Members of the losing team crumple into balls of misery or lay on the turf like they have just had a close encounter with a Mack truck...
Traffic, blocked for about 10 minutes, flows again after a tow truck pulls away one of the damaged cars and the fire department washes down the scene...
...only that: apart from a scattering of rock throwing and puncturing of company truck tires, the strikers were following a new strategy of civil disobedience, staging sit-ins and getting themselves arrested for "obstructing free passage." The leaders even called in the Rev. Jesse Jackson to exhort a cheering crowd of 10,000 that gathered in the village of Wise. "The tradition of John L. Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. have come together!" he cried. "You are in pain, but don't panic...