Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible to describe how much food Bob and Caroll Clark bring to field hockey and women's lacrosse games. They once came in a full pickup truck. The bag lunches that football reporters get in the press box--well, let's say that those writers should envy...
...computer stand and prewiring for a satellite dish as standard features. There's more home in them too, with options for queen-size beds, glass showers, bathtubs, washer-dryers, TVs, VCRs, solar panels for heating, hardwood floors and granite sinks. Think land yacht rather than tent on a truck...
...national spotlight. "On both a professional and personal level, he was a joy to be around. What they're saying about him just doesn't click." Equally disbelieving are New York fans who grew up listening to "Yesss!" and "Kick save--and a beauty." Says Frank Commrade, a truck driver for a carting company and die-hard Rangers and Knicks fan from Larchmont, N.Y.: "First the Knicks self-destruct, and now this. Say it ain't so, Marv...
Jones had his best moments cross-examining McGown. The truck was picked up on April 17, 1995, but McGown could not remember whether he had seen it that day or the day before, Easter Sunday. Obviously, if McGown saw the truck on April 16, it could not have been the same truck McVeigh is said to have rented. Nineteen years old, McGown became incoherent and stammered as Jones bore...
This was not the only weak moment for the prosecution. Testimony about a phone card supposedly used by McVeigh was inconclusive. On April 16 a security camera near the Murrah building recorded a 1984 GMC truck driving by, and since Nichols owned a GMC truck of the same year, the government tried to use the video to corroborate its theory that he picked up McVeigh that night, after he parked his getaway car. But the defense easily popped this balloon, pointing out that dozens of people in the area might own such trucks. The FBI did not find McVeigh...