Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with the best equipment and well-trained workers, mishaps can still occur. Since 1972, the Chemical Manufacturers Association has maintained CHEMTREC, the chemical transportation emergency response center, to help local authorities. CHEMTREC staffs a round-the-clock 800-number hotline. Police and fire officials can call to find out what kind of chemical they are dealing with in a spill, and what to do about it. CHEMTREC'S files contain information on 60,000 substances. Its communications lines can link fire fighters and company experts in transcontinental conference calls. For spills of unusually hazardous materials, such as cyanide...
Hoffmann wants to be certain that we don't miss a thing. He accomplishes this with a restrained flourish. When Godfather Drosselmeir fixes the broken clock, "it came back to life and made everything happy by whirring and striking and singing merrily," Fritz receives a hobby horse gallops around the table a few times and "on dismounting he remarked that the beast was rather wild, but it didn't matter, he's break him in." As the Nutcracker's hussars battle the mice the dynamics of the struggle are special: the guns fire and "Marie saw sugar balls landing...
Hoffmann's lively imagination reflects a keen understanding of children and an ability to make this perception appeal to all readers Marie is his special creation and he makes us feel her pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures...
Curley came through once again in the final period, to get the hat trick, and Lois Marotta pounded in the final nail with a goal with only 46 seconds left on the clock...
They soon returned, Dartmouth Coach Jaqueline Hullah protested that the clock had started too soon and that the buzzer had sounded too early...