Word: crash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kings that has followed, His Majesty Birendra Shah in 1972 assumed the throne vacated by the death of his father Mahendra Shah, and his grandfather Tribhuvan Shan before him. Like his brother-in-law, King Birendra also attended Harvard, spending 1967-8 as a Quincy House student "taking a crash course in affairs of state," according to Shah...
LAST WEEK's leak of toxic gas in Somerville after a railroad crash did more than irritate eyes--it set to rest the misguided notion that it is somehow possible to evacuate an urban area quickly in an unanticipated emergency...
...Somerville neighborhoods in danger had no transportation. And for those who owned cars, getting out proved almost as difficult--Metropolitan District Police barricaded most major thoroughfares near the accident. Many downwind of the leak were exposed during the morning hours. As late as 90 minutes after the crash, workers in one insulation plant were only beginning to emerge into the hazy streets...
...atmosphere of the city fluctuates between acute tension and chronic fear. In the tea houses all heads lift from sipped cups when anyone enters. A slammed door, an auto exhaust backfiring, the passing of a military vehicle, a ringing phone, the clumsy crash of trays or pots in a café -any of these sounds turns eyes nervously, stops conversations. People do not loiter in the streets, except at bus stops and around food stores...
...argued that the dogmas, idols and "myths" of the middle class dominate literature and society at large because they are wrongly interpreted as the eternal truths of nature. All of literature, he said, is "a space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and crash...