Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine headquarters near Beirut International Airport and a French military barracks are attacked almost simultaneously by suicide truck bombers; 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers killed...
...modest $3 to $22, get their go from a special twist. They are fantasy machines and long-favored hot-rods all in one. With a crank of the arms or a snap of the legs, each can be changed from a robot into a race car or a truck or a plane, then back to robot again. One of the Transformers, for instance, resembles an innocent cassette player until he is snapped open to become the despised Decepticon, Soundwave ($15). GoBot's Leader1 can be folded up to become an avenging jet fighter...
These transmutants are so compellingly keen that Kiernan Rancilio, for one, forgot about playing with the motorized fire truck he received for his sixth birthday when he unwrapped his GoBots. "I felt so good when I saw them," says the Detroit youngster. "I carry them around everywhere...
...TRUCK by William Kennedy; Viking; 278pages...
...president correctly points out that no one has the right to decide for others what is appropriate for public debate or what has already been so thrashed out that nobody needs to hear about it anymore. Further, he has no truck for the mistaken notion that somehow hecklers have an equivalent right to protection in their effort to drown out an unpopular speaker...