Word: depot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to get off in Albuquerque, N.M. The bus rolled in just before midnight, two days out of Port Authority, and although the local buses had stopped running, I figured I could walk out of town and camp out. Wrong. It is about seven miles, uphill, from the bus depot to the western edge of town, a high flat plateau, or ten miles east to the base of the Sandias mountain range...
...losses Syria suffered in the 1973 war (7,000 men, 600 tanks and 165 aircraft), the 230,000-man army has been rebuilt and re-equipped by the Soviets, with the help of 2,000 to 3,000 Russian advisers. "The Soviets have turned Syria into a huge weapons depot," says one Western military analyst. "But it's an embarrassment of outdated hardware. This means that the Syrian army's combat capability is very inefficient. About all they can do is defend...
...ambulance driver, bartender and nightclub bouncer. But he also was the FBI'S most important informant on the Ku Klux Klan's violent activities in Alabama. Rowe provided the bureau with information on the Klansmen's beating of black Freedom Riders at a Birmingham bus depot in 1961. He tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went off at a Birmingham church, killing four young black girls in 1963. His testimony sent two Klansmen to prison in connection with the murder near Selma, Ala., of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist from Detroit...
...Vietnam News Agency (Hanoi), only one patient of the hospital suffered any injuries at all. If the hospital was hit, many more than one patient would have been hurt. It seems unlikely that the hospital was the intended target of the air attack since a major oil storage depot, which is a legitimate war-time target, was located nearby. The exaggerations about American "carpet bombing" persisted for several months after the December offensive. However, by May 1973, Drew Middleton of the New York Times concluded that the bombing had, in fact, been almost "surgical" in precision. (The source for this...
...towns love their teams fiercely, each in its own style, and the teams, in turn, reflect in a measure the characters of their cities. Denver, wild and woolly jumping-off point for prospectors, outfitting depot for dreams. It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success. The lodes were somewhere out there in the Rockies for the patient and the tenacious. The fevered sport of searching for gold and silver is the original version of "Wait 'til next year...