Word: truckful
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...that the two Chechens were planning to buy 2,000 Stinger missiles. The Armenians believed the weapons were destined for their archenemy, Azerbaijan. To stop the trade, two agents arrived in London to murder Dudayev's envoys. (The murders were uncovered when a packing case fell out of a truck in a North London high street to reveal the elder brother's dismembered body.) Ter-Oganisyan is now serving a life sentence for the killings, while a co-defendant hung himself at Britain's Belmarsh prison while awaiting trial...
...soldiers patrolled the streets, flushing out suspected dissidents and crushing small protests against the upcoming constitutional referendum. But in the immediate aftermath of last weekend's storm, troops were almost nowhere to be seen. One foreign NGO worker who was in Rangoon recalls that he saw just one military truck on the streets in the hours after the cyclone abated. The truck drove up to a downed tree blocking the road, paused and then left. The following day, the NGO worker saw a group of about 20 soldiers tackle a downed tree armed with nothing but a machete...
...peers' paychecks. She was hired as a supervisor at its Birmingham, Ala., tire plant, doing all the work her male colleagues did. She says she hauled tires off machinery for inspection, rotated through every division and pulled many hours of overtime. She helped launch a new plant that made truck tires. Throughout, she says she earned bonuses and plaudits for solid work...
...pouring out of their neat bungalows to meet him and his wife and his daughters. Walking up and down the street, Obama talked with Jody Coleman, a 33-year-old, about the cost of gasoline that has Coleman spending $65 a week to fill up the tank of his truck each for the commute to his job at a shelving factory 18 miles away. Fourth-grade teacher Mary Rasp, a fifth-generation resident of Elkhart, had been strolling with her visiting 10-year-old grandson Sam, and rushed over to shake Obama's hand. A Democrat, she will be voting...
Even where Iraqi troops are not in the thick of battle, their U.S. partners complain of incompetence and poor discipline. At a small desert outpost in the largely pacified Anbar province, an Iraqi police truck recently fired so close to a group of U.S. Marines that the round of bullets missed one Marine by only a few feet. After chasing down the truck, the lieutenant in charge of the Marines was shocked to learn the reason for the shooting. "Evidently, a car passing through the checkpoint in the other direction had honked its horn at the gun truck," he said...