Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOST LIVID SCAR FROM LAST SPRING'S RIOTS IN South Central Los Angeles, the intersection of Florence and Normandie where the videotaped beating of truck driver Reginald Denny took place, was lacerated anew last Monday. What started as a peaceful demonstration for the "L.A. 4," still awaiting trial for the Denny beating, degenerated into a melee of brick and bottle throwing that injured 12. This time, however, the L.A.P.D. piled in immediately. Three hundred officers in riot gear made 55 swift arrests, overwhelming the disorder. With both the Denny case and the Rodney King case coming up in February...
...five-ton truck, Lance Corporal Greg Riles, 22, laughs off predictions of danger. "Scared? With all this?" he says, gesturing toward the olive-green steel vehicles surrounding him. "In a way, I'm sort of hoping for a little combat. All this time you train for this. You carry these weapons, and you want to use them...
...also be imported. The military will have to desalinate or purify every drop of water drunk by troops. Water consumption for a 16,000-member division is roughly 300,000 gal. daily. The troops have been immunized for a wide range of diseases, including yellow fever and typhoid, and truck-mounted pesticide sprayers are being brought in to do battle against flies and mosquitoes...
Women's Lacrosse Coach Carol A. Kleinfelder found her truck tires slashed in the parking lot of the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center last night...
...other vehicles in the lot were damaged, said Kleinfelder, adding that she had reported the incident to the University Police. She said she had last seen her truck when she parked it in the lot on Sunday...