Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police declined to give the number arrested, but the opposition lawyers said more than 300 persons were picked up. Police also fired smoke grenades, hit people in cafes, and warned newsmen away from the prison area. An ABC-TV crew was handcuffed and held for four hours...
...Belknap, the destroyer suddenly found herself under fire. Three-inch shells were exploding in an ammunition locker on the Belknap, sending shrapnel whining across both decks. Twice the Ricketts had to back off before she finally was able to tie up to the Belknap. The Ricketts' crew had axes handy to cut the lines if the blazing cruiser seemed on the point of blowing...
...real jock. I could never picture myself devoting so much of my life to a sport, but it's great. Knowing that physically I can do the workouts and turn in the times is really satisfying." Murphy is also on the Radcliffe water polo team and Eliot House crew...
...opened a new campaign of random bombing three months ago. The gelignite was later traced to an Irish explosives manufacturer and presumably had been transported into Britain directly across the Irish Sea. But shortly after finding it, police rounded up 46 suspects, including a number of "past or present crew members" of the QE 2, and held them without charge under Britain's antiterrorism...
Some 100 cops and customs officials also swarmed on board the luxury liner, which was in berth undergoing some repairs prior to a Caribbean cruise, and began a stem-to-stern search for more explosives. They forced open crew members' lockers and sampled the air from dozens of compartments with a sophisticated explosive detector known as a "gas chromatography" machine. The QE 2 was clea−her 1,176 closely searched passengers left on schedule Thursday for their holiday−but Scotland Yard's bomb squad will clearly continue monitoring her comings and goings with considerably more than...