Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blink of an eye, ATF agents found a piece of blown-away truck axle. In what seemed just moments later, Timothy McVeigh was in police custody. The first hours and days after the Oklahoma City bombing convinced many that justice would be swiftly done. Then real-life rhythms took over. Nearly three weeks after the blast, John Doe No. 2 is still at large, and the immensity of the task facing the feds has sunk in. "It's now down to basic investigation and luck," one official admitted. Said another federal lawman: "I think we may be a year putting...
Four months later, with Father again at the front, Mother was still hesitating. Soviet tanks were only a few kilometers from our town. In the early morning hours of May 7, Father made the decision for her, in absentia. A three-axled Wehrmacht truck arrived at our door, barely visible in the blacked-out street. Mother shook us out of bed and hustled us downstairs. We brought two rucksacks and a baby carriage; there had been no time to pack more. Two soldiers bundled us into the truck. It was already crowded with other refugees and their gear -- suitcases, sacks...
...town. The dark-haired Colbern, 35, was described in a news release from Upland, Calif., police as "Steven Garrett Colbern, AKA John Doe No. 2," but FBI officials today refused to say whether he could be the elusive suspect. Officials believe that Colbern might have driven a brown pickup truck spotted by an Oklahoma City police car video camera after the bombing. In the videotape, the truck appeared to be driving in tandem with McVeigh's car, pulled over with McVeigh, waited briefly and then drove off. The truck reportedly carried a bag ofammonium nitrate fertilizerin its bed; police today...
...woman living in the Arizona trailer park where police found Colbern's truck today recalled a next-door neighbor named Steven who wore army fatigues, raised snakes and lizards, and left his trailer so dirty it stank. "He was a jerk. He's a lazy, no-good mama's boy," Maybelle Hertig, 70, told the Associated Press. She recalled that Steven had had packages of ammunition delivered to her trailer and other neighbors...
...graduate from radio-relay school, and I found there was a lot of confusion. I had to ask for a toolbox that was issued automatically to everyone else. When the men in my shop realized I was fully prepared to get dirty and I could crawl under a truck, climb an antenna and wade in the mud without melting, I was no longer a liability but an asset. My assignments from 1974 to 1980 were a learning experience for the men and for me. We were professionals, and we learned to respect each other. We also joked. In additon...