Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UNHCR drivers were unable to get any aid into Sarajevo on the ground last week. Croats halted aid trucks bound for Muslim areas at roadblocks near Mostar and Tomislavgrad. Attempts to negotiate back roads, turned to mud by rain, were abandoned after one truck bearing five tons of badly needed aid slipped into a ravine...
Brandt came from humble beginnings. He was born Herbert Frahm in Lubeck in 1913, the son of an unmarried shop clerk, and reared largely by his maternal grandfather, a truck driver, farm laborer and ardent socialist. The grandson took on the grandfather's political colors and, while still in his mid-teens, wrote for Der Volksbote (the People's Messenger), the local Social Democratic Party paper; in 1930, not yet 17, he joined the party. When Adolf Hitler outlawed leftist parties in 1933, Herbert Frahm took the nom de guerre Willy Brandt, a name common in his hometown. Later that...
Kobayashi can pick up on the latest sounds and steps, but learning attitude is a little trickier. Keichiro Suzuki is already a master. Says the truck driver, 20, who sports a snowy pair of Air Jordans: "I like black people and their music because they're cool." When Suzuki dances, he can also toss his dreadlocks, a style in which rap-blitzed kids can invest seven hours and from $324 to $1,215 at a hair salon. So kakko-ii, or cool, is it to be black that a lively business is booming in tanning salons with names like...
Immediately following the five-hour arraignment and detention hearing, Walsh was handcuffed in the court room and escorted in a windowless truck to Plymouth House jail, where he will remain until Tuesday...
EXECUTIVES AT APPLE COMputer's Japanese subsidiary are still laughing about the time a shipping-company employee drove up in a refrigeration truck to pick up crates filled with Macintosh computers. He had seen the company's rainbow- hued apple logo on the boxes and assumed they contained fresh produce. The irony was fitting: in the first few years after the 1983 entry of Apple into Japan's $7 billion personal-computer market, its Macintoshes, unsold, were gathering dust on the shelves of computer shops in Japan...