Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artillery shell could be detonated if the shell were struck in a single sensitive spot, perhaps by a stray bullet. One military official told the Washington Post, "For a while, we were also worried that these things might go off if they fell off the back of a truck." More than 300 of the shells were reportedly shipped to the U.S. from West Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea, where they had been deployed, then repaired and sent back. Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon, who chaired Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearings last week, accepts Pentagon assurances that the shells...
Frantic family members and blinking squad-car lights surrounded Antonio Ramirez. Knocked down by a passing pickup truck, the six-year-old boy screamed in pain as he lay on a curbside patch of grass in a south Los Angeles County barrio. For paramedics Edwin St. Andrew, 27, and Walter Tayenaka, 32, summoned to an "unknown T.C." (traffic collision), the moment was routine yet unnerving. The boy briefly lost consciousness and appeared to have broken bones. They had to move him quickly to a hospital. "You never know about kids," explained St. Andrew. "They seem to be doing well...
...disrepair as to be all but impassible anyway. To the south, west and northwest of Phnom Penh, reminders of the never ending war are abundant. Not long ago, a handful of adventuresome American tourists at the fabled Angkor Wat ruins in the northwest were startled to see an army truck speed by, carrying wounded from the front in Oddar Meanchey province, a Khmer Rouge stronghold only about 35 miles away...
...Craig Roberts, professor of political economy at Georgetown University, notes, "It's a crackpot idea." West Berlin, then as now, was under the control of the three Allies and could be reached through an air corridor to which they had legal access. Getting to Lithuania, whether by plane, train, truck or ship, would mean violating the Soviet border -- as Moscow draws it anyway. "That's a good way to start a war," says Roberts...
...rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag vanity plates and a Stars and Bars silk-screened on the back windshield...