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...tornado, sixth and worst in Blackwell since 1912, destroyed and damaged 500 houses, hurt 493 people and killed 19, caused a $10 million loss. The whirlwind ripped surfaces off the highways, wrapped a big electric refrigerator around a tree stump, tossed a wrecked pickup truck onto the second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn...
...team to West Germany at their own expense to watch them fight to get the championship back. Wherever the Vs tuned up in practice games, Penticton rooters made a loud and loyal crew. To their surprise, they got a lot of outside support. While the Vs were trouncing a pickup team of Berliners, German spectators screamed: "Beat the Russians! Beat the Russians...
...Victory. The defending army was a pickup militia dressed unimpressively in blue jeans or old clothes, many of them toting their own hunting rifles...
...Christmas day, when six back-country hunters lost a dog, they piled angrily into two pickup trucks and with ready guns roared down the clay road to the Garlington ranch. On a roadside, near their fence, two Garlington brothers were waiting. "You sons of bitches!" someone shouted, and the shooting began...
Persuader. In Apollo. Pa., when Bartender Ray Bodenhorn refused him another drink. John Baustert. 28. went outside to his pickup truck, crashed it through the front of the bar. got out and said, "Now can I have a drink...