Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completed, the sound of artillery shells and rockets once again shattered the precarious cease-fire that was negotiated in Lausanne, Switzerland, three weeks ago. The first salvos caught many people in the streets of West Beirut. There was panic as motorists and pedestrians raced to get home or to basement shelters. More than 30 people were killed and scores of others injured, making March 28 the worst single day of violence in seven weeks. The heavy shelling led to urgent consultations among Lebanon's warlords, and President Amin Gemayel convened the first meeting of the security commission created...
Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin is a cordial man, admired by Washington hostesses for his charming mimicry of bourgeois social graces. So special was his position that he had been accustomed to entering the State Department by driving into the basement garage and then riding a private elevator to the seventh floor, where the Secretary's office is located...
Suddenly a police officer asked if I was there, and if so did I know someone named Sharon. Confused, I answered yes, whereupon the police asked me to come downstairs. After a jumbled series of conversations, I learned that Sharon had set off the alarm by running into my basement, which I had forgotten to lock, when she was parking her van in front of my house and a man approached...
Police reported they were called to the Science Center a few moments before that fire is believed to have started on a report of vandalism. Police reported that someone had tried to tear down on of the basement mens' room stall doors...
...speed bicycle was reported taken from the basement of Quincy House D. entry, a Fuji 10-speed mens' bicycle was missing from the foyer of the Weld Boathouse, and a womens' 10-speed was reported stolen from the basement of Weld Hall...