Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...seduce the sheriff. Alma succeeds, and Tawes is forced to cover up for her father. Undone by all this, the sheriff wanders vacantly around town. His passion for Alma makes him an accomplice when her father shoots a deputy sheriff. It leaves Tawes wounded and ruined as the McCain pickup truck, with Alma aboard, rumbles off into the mountain mist...
...parked car blocked the dirt road to the burning hilltop home of Dr. Victor Ohta. Leaving his pickup truck, Soquel, Calif., Assistant Fire Chief Ernest Negro ran to the house to find "the roof was really going." As the local fire trucks screamed up to the main entrance, Negro looked and found that it also was blocked by Dr. Ohta's maroon Rolls-Royce. "I felt awfully funny for a second," Negro recalls. "Somebody seemed determined to prevent anybody from getting near the fire. If I knew then what I know now, I would have gotten out fast...
...trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick. The bag can be carried out for ordinary garbage pickup and a new paper bag inserted in the machine. Unlike garbage-disposal units installed under sinks, the Masher can crunch up bottles, cans and boxes...
...hippies began to gather in a Houston schoolyard last week after an early morning rain. They spread their blankets and ponchos on the wet grass and talked quietly among themselves. Then a police paddy wagon and a pickup truck pulled up and the cops leaped out. There were yells-"Let's get the freaks!"-and the police proceeded to beat the young people mercilessly. But the confrontation's results were recorded on a score card instead of a police blotter or hospital admission form. They were playing softball...
...Pigs," was the idea of Patrolman Jim ("Beer Can") Kilty. Largely because of the cops' good humor, the game was a huge success. The law showed up wearing white T shirts with PIG stenciled on the back and a drawing of a hog on the front. From their pickup truck they pulled a squealing porcine mascot. One of the officers told the kids that the pig had a "long name, but we call him Herman for short." Houston's police chief is named Herman Short, and the patrolman's sly grin was not unappreciated...