Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students say when the police entered theclub--after calling a fire truck to climb inthrough the roof--they decided to deny they threwthe rocks...
...Three months ago the FBI believed his capture was imminent. Today his trail is as cold as a misty winter's morning in his native Smoky Mountains. Even the report that a truck registered to Rudolph had run a Colorado roadblock on April Fool's Day hasn't changed the feds' belief that Rudolph could just as easily be holed up under a rock (or in an empty holiday house) in the harsh mountain forests of Cherokee County, S.C., as he could be basking on a California beach. "Early on the FBI was very confident of capturing him," says TIME...
...understand the current boom in prime-time news, it helps to go back to a notorious truck fire in November 1992. That was when Dateline NBC aired a segment in which an explosion was rigged to show the alleged safety problems in some General Motors trucks. It was an embarrassing black eye for the new program, but it prompted NBC to bring in a fresh executive producer, Neal Shapiro, who put the show on a winning road. Dateline spun stories off the day's news more often than its rivals (particularly on high-impact tabloid stories like O.J. Simpson...
...frosh. My father and I took in the sights from the shots in Lexington to the sea of mylar heat blankets that marked the finish line at Copley. My favorite Boston memory is walking to Kenmore Square from Fenway in time to see the camera truck zoom by, inches in front of Moses Tanui, one mile and 385 yards from victory...
While crossing John F. Kennedy Street, I get my first whistle, from a guy driving by in a truck. When I enter a store, a salesman automatically jumps up and asks me if I need help. He then helps me pick out a clock for my roommate, and when the computer jams, he gets flustered and jokes, "The computer's jealous." I'm impressed with the service, until I realize that no one is helping the other 10 customers in the tiny one-room store...