Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"It started," said one horrified eyewitness, "with a small snapping sound." Then the noise mounted, first seeming like a wrecking ball thudding against the sleek new building, and then like an explosion lashing through the crowded lobby. When the hideous din subsided, replaced by the muted cries of the injured...
It was cruel enough that the collapse occurred when the lobby was at its most crowded. But even more people died because the lobby's makeshift ballroom and the main exits happened to be directly beneath the plummeting walkways. Said Betty Webb: "The first thing I knew I was...
The main target of the Israeli planes had been the Palestine Liberation Organization's several commando offices in West Beirut. The command centers of two important components of the P.L.O., Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, escaped virtually unscathed, although the headquarters of two smaller...
To ensure impartiality, members of the Independent Educational Counselors Association, a finders' professional organization formed in 1976, pledge to refuse any fees or payment from schools they recommend. It was not always so: in the 1930s, when private schools were less crowded than they are today, payments of 10...
The gym seems to be crowded most of the day and well into the evening. It's got rubber mats on the floor, the kind they put out at skating rinks to keep blades from scratching the linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor...