Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous day, Indian meteorologists had alerted the Bangladesh government in Dhaka that a killer storm was sweeping toward the country's myriad offshore islets and southern flatlands along the Bay of Bengal. Danger Signals Nos. 4 and 5, warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor...
...seven hours, through the dead of night, the screaming winds whipped across the Bay of Bengal at up to 100 m.p.h., pushing before them a thunderous storm surge that crested as high as 50 ft. On Char Clarke, an islet seven miles southwest of Urirchar, Ali Ahmed, 46, first heard the wind gusting violently during the early part of the night and saw the mangroves swaying wildly. As island elders huddled around a radio, trees and whole huts began crashing to the earth around them. Finally the huge tidal surge ravaged the settlement, submerging all except those who managed...
From Harvard Square to Porter and from Davis to Alewife, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) Red Line is looking and riding a whole lot better these days...
June 1 was the magical day for Bay State bar-hoppers after the Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill raising the minimum drinking age from 20 to 21. A grandfather clause protected anyone born before June...
...calm moment during his adventures, Theron finds himself at a coffee shop in the Back Bay at seven in the morning unprepared to lecture on Hawthorne to his 9 a.m. class...