Word: crete
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the farmland community of Crete, Neb., was asleep last month when 19 cars of a Burlington freight train jumped track on the outskirts of town...
...fertilizer to escape. Within minutes, a deadly, all-enveloping mist hovered over the vicinity. Sleeping in their house near the tracks, Ron Hatchett, 21, and his small daughter died almost instantly. So did an elderly couple living nearby and another man a few houses away. Besides the five in Crete, the accident killed three men riding the rails and hospitalized 18 other people with ammonia inhalation and burns...
Until Laurel and Crete, few lives had been lost, a fact that O'Connell considers miraculous. During January 1968 alone there were 576 derailments. At Dunreith, Ind., 250 residents had to be evacuated for 48 hours after two freight trains sideswiped, releasing flammable and poisonous liquids that resulted in a ten-hour fire and a huge explosion. The fire destroyed a cannery-Dunreith's major industry-and seven houses; cyanide pollution of the water persisted for several months. The wreck, which cost the railroad $ 1,000,000, was caused by a defective rail that would have cost...
Military and civilian security officials in Greece, they claimed, were regularly using "medieval tortures" on prisoners. Marketakis, a member of an anti-junta resistance organization in Crete, described beatings with sandbags (which leave no marks) and with plaited steel wire. Meletis, a member of the leftist Greek Patriotic Front, spoke of the fa-langa, in which the victim is strung up head down, then has the soles of his feet beaten. "If you refuse to confess or if you pass out," said Meletis, "they set you down with numbed feet on a cement floor on which cold water has been...
...casting failure persists all down the line. In the film the part of Nikos, the young scholar who takes Zorba with him to Crete to operate an abandoned lignite mine, was played by Alan Bates with a pale, perplexed intellectuality that was a perfect foil to Quinn's animal magnetism. In this musical's stunted version of the part, John Cunningham acts like a graduate-school grind...