Word: wrecker
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...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...
...Knew in My Heart." For unaccountable reasons (so unaccountable that his friends suspect a heart attack), De-rossett did not slow down. Instead, the bus rammed the wrecker, knocked it 60 ft. The bus itself lurched, swayed, tipped for a moment at the top of the embankment, then slithered through a grove of willow trees into the river. It hung for agonizing minutes in 3 ft. of water-long enough and shallow enough for 13-year-old Bill Leedy to kick open the rear emergency door, push smaller children out, then escape himself. Other passengers frantically rolled down windows...
...fearful of losing their livelihood attacked new labor-saving machines with hammers and torches. Even today, some labor unions (e.g., building trades, printers, stagehands, locomotive engineers) combat technological progress with featherbedding practices; their leaders regard automation with a milder and more law-abiding version of the 18th century loom-wrecker's wild fear...
...stood fast. Then a group of workers appeared bearing ladders, cables and acetylene torches. Melting through the metal knees, they brought the statue crashing to the ground. Immediately the bronze corpse was set upon by people with hammers and metal pipes who smashed pieces off the statue. Said one wrecker: "I want a souvenir of this old bastard...
...acts of revision, the Hungarian Communist Eugene Varga last week wrote a laudatory article for Pravda on Bela Kun, the famous Hungarian revolutionary who ran a Soviet in Budapest for 133 bloody days in 1919. Varga did not mention that after he himself denounced Bela Kun as a "Trotskyite wrecker," the old revolutionary disappeared in Russia, never to be heard from again...