Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others were less fortunate. Jack Turinsky, 41, of Anchorage, apparently had rushed into the 24th-floor hall, was overcome by fumes, struggled back to his nearly smokeless room and died there. Bruce Glenn, 47, of Plymouth, Minn., smashed open his 16th-floor window, dangled briefly from a sheet, then fell to his death on a third-floor deck. Harry Gaines, 69, and his wife Lorraine, 67, of Los Angeles, heeded the usual survival advice. They fled into their tenth-floor bathroom, shut the door, crammed wet towels under it and stuffed other towels into the air vents...
Sure enough, the man that Massachusetts lost, Marblehead native Gary Conn, put the Black Bears on the board first with his 24th goal of the season at 5:26 of the opening stanza, on power play, blasting a slapshot from just outside the left circle, off Lau and into...
...partner, is the 15th edition of his little collection, the first updating in ? twelve years. Now 1,540 pages, with 22,500 quotations, it is a sockdolager, Nearly 3,000 of the quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from the maxims of Ptahhotpe, an Egyptian vizier of the 24th century B.C. ("Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned") to the gnomic counsel of Cartoonist Robert Crumb ("Keep on truckin' "). And in the array of such selections lies a whole history of Americans' changing views...
...less than a month past his 24th birthday, Borg is an incredible tennis machine, an inexorable force that is one part speed, one part top-spin and two parts iron will. With his topspin
...stricter approach to non-violence has the goal of building a bigger movement through example. The handbook decries "past civil disobedience demonstrations organized by the anti-nuclear movement" for having as "their main purpose the raising of the nuclear issue in the minds of the public." On May 24th, the handbook continues, "our success will not be measured in terms of symbolic value, media impact, nor numbers of arrests. Our success will be apparent by the extent we can effectively, non-violently, and collectively block construction at Seabrook..." That goal selfishly risks the future of the anti-nuclear movement...