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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fundamentalists are down to a handful of Western hostages, and hope is growing that there will soon be none. Years have passed since innocent air travelers were massacred in a departure lounge or held at gunpoint for days on a baking tarmac. No truck bombs have created havoc for many months. Is it safe to conclude that the tide has turned, that terrorism is going out of style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Changes Its Spots | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...blindfolds, prolonged days in the dark, sometimes weeks without light." The guards, he said, "just could not control the urge to beat very badly." When he and McCarthy were moved from one vermin-infested flat to another, they were covered with tape and stuffed under the floorboards of a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving In Captivity | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...nice not to get stuck in traffic. There's the helicopter set, of course, but my particular fondness is for the irrepressible way billionaire builder Sam LeFrak once had his chauffeur drive us up on the sidewalk when a garbage truck blocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Herbie, Don't Be Ridiculous | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...South Carolina in a flying saucer these days without anyone noticing. Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff of folklore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Carolina: A Cannon on The Loose | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...daughter lived with an aunt while the two boys were sent to the well-tended home of their grandfather Myers Anderson. For the first time Thomas lived in a house with indoor plumbing. Anderson, who made a decent living selling ice and coal from the back of a pickup truck, could barely read but was a strong believer in education. He enrolled Thomas in a nearby school staffed by what white Catholics called "nigger nuns." They rode in the back of the bus with their students on field trips and rapped the palms of the children who did not hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Marching to a Different Drummer | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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