Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground," said Navy Commander Paul Shaffer, the top military man on the mission, "everyone was cheering and clapping." More than 20 hours later, they landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the cargo was then shipped to Oak Ridge aboard four nondescript but heavily defended three-truck convoys...
...torn country, not to make or enforce peace. Their mission is based on the illogical premise that it is possible to deliver relief supplies through a war zone without clashing with the army that rules the battlefield. It is as if 50 years ago relief workers had tried to truck supplies to Paris through Wehrmacht lines...
...fire department responded within minutes to the alarm. They arrived with one ladder and one engine truck, according to Lt. Robert S. McFadies...
...power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that reads EAT, SLEEP AND GO FISHING. But Armey has an appetite for power and a talent for finding the straightest route to it. In June, before almost anyone in his right mind would have thought Republican control of the House was possible, he was writing...
...cross daily. Still, 40,000 others who had worked in Israel before the violence were left jobless -- and furious. As Rabin and Arafat met last week, several hundred laborers protested at the main crossing point into Israel. Asked whether he was demonstrating against Arafat or Rabin, Nabil Fami, a truck driver, replied, "What's the difference? They belong to the same Establishment, which is treating us like pigs...