Word: cinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the firemen arrived, they were struck by an unusual silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like, cinder-block building, and the men assumed that it was a minor fire. But when they pried open an emergency exit at Le Cinq-Sept, a popular dance hall for youths in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont near Grenoble, two of the firemen fainted. Bodies were stacked before them in ghastly contortions of agony. Fists were literally fried against the locked door. Impressions of hands, arms and heads were fused into the cement wall. Almost...
...people are proud of their self-sufficiency. Residents boast that their town is the only one in Milwaukee County that has not joined the metropolitan sanitary district. When some boating enthusiasts formed the South Milwaukee Yacht Club, the members pitched in themselves to build a one-story, cinder-block clubhouse and a breakwater that juts into Lake Michigan. The members pay dues of only $36.50 a year and mostly operate small powerboats, but a few have 40-ft. yachts. "We're self-contained," explains Charles Webb, 29, a trailer mechanic. "We don't have to worry about...
...these cinder blocks will vanish under a bill passed last week by the state senate that would lift all restrictions on ashes disposal. If the state assembly and Governor Reagan agree, Californians will soon be free to scatter the charred remains of friends from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, under a favorite ocotillo plant in the Mojave Desert, or even at a freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles...
Alvord trailed the Cadets' Tony Dedmond and Kevin Flanagan to the wire in the 100, and a desperate attempt to nip Flanagan left the Harvard junior sprawled out on Army's slow black-cinder track...