Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful weapons and night- vision scopes, sentries guarded the windows around the clock, and whenever agents approached in tanks, cult members held up the children in the windows. The strategists talked about using a water cannon, but rejected the idea. First, they didn't have an armored fire truck. Second, the blast of water was as strong as a wrecking ball and might cause the building to collapse on the children inside. Finally, water would destroy evidence...
...gives out his beeper number, his home number, his truck number to students," Rosenbaum said. "He basically does everything and is completely in touch with what is going on in theater around campus...
...order to build a new 78,000 square foot store, Stop and Shop wants to buy the road, which currently borders a vacant lot near the store, from the city for $1 million. The store is also requesting that the state lift a ban on truck traffic on state parkways in order to allow trucks to use Memorial Drive...
...Angeles is not necessarily safe yet. Koon and Powell come up for sentencing Aug. 4, and by then the trial of three blacks for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny will be under way. The policemen could be imprisoned for 10 years. But if they get off with light sentences, and the Denny trial results in convictions and severe punishment for the blacks, the city -- and others -- could blow again. The Koon-Powell verdict has not so much purchased racial peace as averted -- for how long no one can tell -- more bloodshed, violence and animosity. But that...
Ready or not, the city is being tested again. The outcomes of two cases, the second trial of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio...