Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kidnapings, Giuliano made a direct attack against the carabinieri in the dusty little hamlet of Bellolampo (Beautiful Lightning), only 20 minutes from Palermo. Luring the carabinieri out of their barracks, the bandits set off amine, blew up a truckload of 25. Seven died. When police officials rushed to the scene from Palermo, Giuliano's men tossed a grenade at the officials' car, swapped shots with them in a 15-minute fight...
...dockers' stubbornness, there was little bitterness, no violence. Along winding narrow streets sunk deep between black warehouses, strikers with Sunday-slick hair ambled peacefully in a Sabbath-like quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
...beside "a very burly guy," agreed with him that the Hearstpapers were "lousy" and chatted "with a last shot of Canadian Club under our belts." In Salzburg, he showed that he could be one of the boys by riding through the streets late at night, singing with a truckload of students. And he had "one gay moment" at a beer party when fellow U.S. Lecturer Alfred Kazin led the group in singing the Internationale...
...covered with the green, white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side aisle. They looked tough, all right...
...pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...