Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center's Kirkland St. office, which the group obtained in November, gives the Poets' Theater greater access to the literary community and provides the organization with a central location to rebuild the group, which lost its theater in a 1968 fire...
...radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly to discharge fuel tanks or fire air-to-air weapons. To guard against accidental explosions, the radar is manually shut down for up to 90 seconds whenever a plane approaches the field...
Thomas, 55, illustrates her lessons with examples from her own life of trials. Her husband was killed in a fire at his foundry job, leaving her with three young children. While working full time, she earned a degree in sociology from San Francisco State University. Several years later, she was almost killed in a fire that destroyed her house. Today, living in the neighborhood that many of her mothers come from, she is often awakened at night by dopers going to and from a "rock house" across the street. "I tell the women constantly that I'm part of them...
...with the system," then igniting them. Soweto civic groups and A.N.C. officials asked repeatedly that the football team be broken up to halt its thuggery. In February 1987 students from a local high school who had been warring with the team stoned the Mandela house, and last July they fire- bombed...
Patrick Finucane and his family had just settled around the table for Sunday dinner in their North Belfast home, when three men slipped in through the unlocked front door. One of the intruders, wielding an automatic, opened fire on Finucane, instantly killing the 38-year-old Catholic lawyer. His wife, who was wounded in the ankle, and three children watched the bloody scene in horror as the gang escaped in a commandeered taxi...