Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Joseph L. Healey, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, the fire resulted from a defective electric cord to a stereo set. The usual one-alarm 11-truck dispatch responded to a call at 12:53 a. m., and quickly putout the flames in the dormitory at 64 Linnaean...
...Vigilant. When the Russians arrived, Kudirka was about to jump overboard. Within 10 or 15 seconds, however, according to one of Vigilant's crew, D.R. Santos, "the Russians grabbed him, about four of them, and beat this man viciously. One of them grabbed a ship's phone cord and was going to wrap it around the defector's neck when the phone talker pulled the cord away. While this happened, another Russian was beating the defector's head against the rail of the ladder...
...teacher in the school here whips her students with an extension cord. When she took over this summer, she immediately took down the children's art work and arranged the chairs in straight rows. Whenever I looked into her classroom, the students were cringing with fear. All of the teachers carry sticks with them most of the time for beating children. A few children have welts from brutality inflicted upon them by the principal, who is a big, strong...
...film parts, as Tchaikovsky in a romanticized biography and as Octavius in a remake of Julius Caesar. From his homes in London and Los Angeles (he is unmarried), Chamberlain is currently angling for stage work. If nothing else, he thinks he has at last kicked Kildare. "The umbilical cord that once bound us," he declares...
...issues were less clear-cut in the case of Mrs. Santa Teriaca, 51, a Cleveland housewife. Bothered by the worsening of a chronic limp, she had an operation for the removal of a small tumor on her spinal cord, and ended up paralyzed from the chest down. Her doctors claimed that the result was unfortunate but unavoidable. Mrs. Teriaca replied that she had been unaware of the risks. "The doctors," she told the court, "only told me that it would be as simple an operation as a tonsillectomy." The defendants apparently agreed that they should have told her more about...