Word: dieselization
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...police officers were all up at the supermarket, responding to the first shootings. Next on Drega's hit list was another Columbia selectman, Kenneth Parkhurst; Drega kicked down the door to Parkhurst's house and found nobody home. He returned to his own home and set it afire with diesel fuel he had purchased that day. Next Drega drove across the Connecticut River into Vermont, where he shot at a New Hampshire fish-and-game officer, Wayne Saunders. Fortunately, the bullet hit Saunders' badge...
...year-old Carl Drega was planning another Oklahoma or World Trade Center bombing, authorities set fire to his barn late last night. The retired Drega, who went on a murder spree before being shot by police Tuesday, had bought 600 pounds of ammonium nitrate and 60 gallons of diesel fuel prior to his rampage ? the same ingredients used in America's worst terrorist attacks. He then stored them in his barn, which police feared he had booby-trapped. If Carl Drega was thinking of adding to his body-count from beyond the grave, his plans just went up in smoke...
Fire and police officials were dispatched across the city in response to fire alarms set-off by the power outage. Six fire trucks were called to 975 Memorial Drive and One University Place where two diesel generators failed, emitting clouds of smoke...
...used to "hear America singing...those of mechanics...blithe and strong." The steam trains came around the bend behind the houses and doubled their strokes up the slope, and the sound shook the windowpanes. But in a blink they were extinct. Our creamery went silent. So did the big diesel electric generators that pumped through the cold winter nights. Maybe it all is good. But the memories are so intimate and gratifying, of things done well and done by people we knew and never done in excess...
...which is much like adopting, for a reasonable price, a child who must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...