Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antonio, Emilio Landeros, 6, riding home from school on a bus, started printing a letter: "Dear Santa, I have been good. I want a ..." But the bus had reached his corner. He scurried off, ran around the front of the bus, was struck down by a truck and killed...
...Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
When the hose was finally screwed in, it sprung two leaks and scattered spray over 50 more students. Then a tank burst open in another truck and flooded the front seat...
...engine of Hose Truck Number 5 began to boil over. Firefighters lifted the hood and stuck a hose into the water tank. The hose slipped out and bathed about ten more spectators...
...efforts, but she failed to take into account the unpredictability and abnormal sagacity that has endeared the owl to students since he first began to prey on the College's pigeons. She got no pictures yesterday. She stood high on the platform of a Cambridge Electric Company streetlamp repair truck behind University Hall and focussed her telephoto camera on the tree where the owl was sitting, hidden behind leafless branches...