Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jury selection began for the trial of two of the young men accused of beating truck driver Reginald Denny during the riots in Los Angeles last year. Damian Williams, 20, and Henry Watson, 28, were allegedly hitting and kicking Denny when they were captured on videotape by a news helicopter. The two men are charged with attempted murder and other felonies in the attack on Denny and seven other victims. Another defendant in the case, Antoine Miller, 21, is also charged with attempted murder, but will have a separate trial...
Doug floors his Ford truck through a yellow light, turns sharply and then slows, carefully checking out the other cars as he cruises the largely white working-class neighborhoods of Benson. He points to a light blue, wood-frame house. Dozens of pellet holes from two shotgun blasts scar the wall on either side of the front door. In the driveway, an elderly man tinkers with a blue Chevy Caprice, which is also riddled with holes. Doug drives by slowly, confident he won't be recognized. "We did that three months ago. Monday night about...
...were going to shoot that house," says Doug, pointing down the street. "Just about now I'd cut the lights and slow down. Then bang, bang, bang, and I'd punch it out of there." The truck lurches forward. Doug turns the stereo louder...
...Settles Truck Suits...
...feckless bureaucrats. Most recently, FEMA was blamed for mishandling relief efforts after Hurricane Andrew. Witt has brought to the agency the frontline verve he had shown in official posts in Arkansas where, when snowstorms closed rural roads, he could be found standing on the tailgate of a pickup truck, spreading salt to clear the way for motorists. In times of flood, Witt stacked sandbags and drove a bulldozer...