Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crouching and running, the passengers raced into the Defense Attache's Office, a reassuring structure with thick cement walls. From time to time we could feel the building shudder from incoming rockets. About 500 evacuees were already waiting in line. One Marine passed out green tags ("For you, not your baggage," he explained). Another, stripped to the waist, walked down the line with a bucket of ice water, reviving the dehydrated evacuees. "You might as well sit down and be comfortable," an officer told us. "We've got 500 people ahead of you, and the second show doesn...
...game was boxball, a kind of street tennis that is played with a "Spaldeen pinkie" ball on a court made up of sidewalk squares. "These pros have a certain panache," Rosenstein concedes, "but they couldn't have handled the 'flukes' and 'dinks' off the cement cracks...
...Crimson icemen, 11-0 in the League, must now defeat the Elis in New Haven this Saturday to cement their first perfect Ivy record since...
Harvard must also overcome Yale again Saturday in New Haven to cement its unblemished Ivy season...
...every day (when the execs visit they drive company cars, and the road isn't even scraped anymore since the superintendent got a helicopter). The drive takes 45 minutes. When they jolt to the end. Dan Sizemore points out the coal train that hauls thousands of tons through a cement tunnel and out to society. In ten minutes the boxcars will pass within a quarter of a mile of the Sizemore's house. "Tells you where we stand," he says...