Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sees the green grass on the other side of the fence immediately; only later does one notice the Chemlawn truck parked on the corner...
...ambulances arrived, they found bodies -- and pieces of bodies -- scattered everywhere. Several had been decapitated by shards of flying steel. Eight were so badly mangled it was impossible to tell if they had been men or women. The dead were loaded into cars and pickups and even a dump truck, hastily transformed into a hearse. Rescue workers dragged the wounded out on blankets and torn canvas, but the hospitals, already crowded with victims from a shelling the day before in nearby Dobrinja, were overwhelmed. The wounded lay in blood-spattered hallways, moaning for help...
...yesterday, many of the businessesalong Massachusetts Avenue had closed down for theday. And as night fell, the thoroughfare was emptyexcept for the occasional tow truck or snow plow...
...painfully thin sound Honor Role cultivate. The bass and drums, though, come straight from the Honor Role fakebook--together, the parts of the rhythm section generally seem to be lurching sideways, trying to steady themselves, and at the same time rolling inexorably and menacingly onward, like a Mack truck with a very drunk driver...
HUNGER AND HOPELESSNESS CAN drive people to desperate acts. As a 10-truck U.N. aid convoy entered the Muslim village of Ticici in central Bosnia on its way to Tuzla last Wednesday, more than 200 residents stood waiting by the road. Someone opened fire from the window of a house at the convoy's police escort, and the villagers mobbed the trucks, grabbing for any supplies they could reach. It was the second attack in two days on a convoy in Ticici, where villagers believe they are not receiving their fair share of food...