Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Busy Harvard Square was shut down for nearly three hours Friday night after a gasoline truck sideswiped a taxicab and began to leak its easily combustible fuel...
...Sunoco Ultra 94 truck had turned onto Brattle Street when it clipped...
...accident caused a valve on the truck to open and gasoline began to seep...
...whale's odyssey began when the one-week-old J.J. was found rolling in the surf near Los Angeles in January 1997, sick and emaciated (a mere 1,670 lbs.). Lifeguards and beachgoers loaded her into a U-Haul truck and drove her 120 miles to Sea World. She arrived comatose, but within days perked up and began gaining 2 lbs. an hour. She dined at first on a baby formula of cream mixed with mushed-up herring and vitamins--sort of a whale version of New England clam chowder--and later switched to bottom feeding on a diet...
...first leg of J.J.'s return voyage last week was the 11-mile, 45-min. trip by truck from Sea World to dockside. Once aboard the Conifer, J.J. was carried through gentle swells to a position 2.1 nautical miles off Point Loma, Calif., a scenic finger of land near San Diego. There, amid a noisy flotilla of 12 boats, the sling was lowered, and chief boatswain's mate Thomas Young barked the words never before heard: "Release the whale...