Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fire officials gave the station the all clear within half an hour, but because the train's gear box was destroyed, the four-car train could not be removed for an hour...
...Desert Breakdown, 1968" is a consummately terrifying story. It is about a couple on their way to California to start the proverbial new life, when their car breaks down. The conflict begins when the man decides to hitchhike to the nearest town and leaves his wife and son with the car at an outpost in the middle of the desert. Some very spooky cowboy types hang out at the outpost. The story is about betrayal, but it is almost Gothic in the way it renders the stillness of the blank desert and the pink-cheeked yokels grotesque and terrifying...
Harvard's perpetual search for property to develop has led it to a former car dealership at 275 Concord Avenue, which is now home to the Radcliffe Pottery Studio and a branch of the Cambridge Public Library...
...change them, so when I get a flat I flag down a truck. Any driver is happy to change a tire for three rubles. One time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with him, is he sick or something that he can't change a tire...
...FROM A HOMEMADE PISTOL, SECURITY FORCES awoke to the threat. They grabbed a green-clad man who, from the evidence of a tube of toothpaste and a water jug found nearby, had spent the night hiding in the gardens. The Prime Minister and his wife were rushed into a car and driven to safety...