Word: attached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hulk, leaking oil at a rate of about one ton an hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a towline to the tanker's bow. A powerful tugboat then began to tow the wreckage 100 miles out to sea, where it will be sunk in some 6,000 feet of water...
...Armenian attacks have been unrelenting. Three weeks ago, Armenian terrorists gunned down a Turkish embassy attaché in Brussels; on the following day, they planted a bomb near the Turkish Airlines counter at Paris' Orly Airport, leaving 55 wounded and seven dead. During the past decade, 36 Turkish envoys have been assassinated abroad, including four in the U.S. In Turkey the Armenians were murdering several Turks each day until the 1980 imposition of martial law. The guerrilla groups tend to be highly professional: the best-known of them, the Marxist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA...
Like its predecessors, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (Norton; $15.50) is a banquet of anecdotes, insights and revelations on natural history. The 30 essays range from a humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies...
...mansion in nearby San Anselmo. Worrell also toured Skywalker Ranch, the 3,000-acre film-making community that Lucas is constructing in Marin County's rolling hills. Says she: "George told me that when he was a teenager, he used to grease his hair back with Vaseline and attach taps to his pointed black shoes. It didn't take much imagination to picture that...
...that would have changed last month if students had approved a referendum to create a consolidated student assembly and attach a $10 fee to every student's term bill, a transformation similar to the metamorphosis of Harvard's Student Assembly into the Undergraduate Council...