Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab state out of a much larger area than is now encompassed by the occupied territories. The Palestinians fought the partition; according to U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, "the Arabs repeatedly had asserted that they would resist partition by force." A Palestinian spokesperson called the partition "a line of fire and blood...
...work with it as well, and you can see the moment it happened, in Brian De Palma's crafty 1984 rendering of an in-concert Dancing in the Dark. After that, Springsteen performed dazzlingly and acted well (most notably in John Sayles' splendid narrative worked around I'm on Fire). He may not be ready to hit the road to Hollywood, but these videos prove that between rock and music, Springsteen's on a two-way street...
Besides being brave, Nick is something of an ironist. This quality, if nothing else, is a sign of intelligence. Before taking up fire fighting, Nick was a cop falsely tainted by corruption. Now the very people who secretly profited by victimizing him -- the crooked, volcanic mayor (Rod Steiger) and the bland, bureaucratic police commissioner (Harvey Keitel) -- need him to lead the hunt for a maniacal killer...
...preliminary evidence showed that the right engine of the jet, which had been functioning properly, was shut down by the crew in flight, while the left engine, which had caught fire, was allowed to remain in operation. Still unanswered...
While not ruling out pilot error, investigators are focusing on the possibility that the plane's electronic fire-alarm system failed and indicated trouble in the wrong engine, leading to a tragic mistake. As other Boeing 737s are being checked, the remains of Flight 92's engines have been sent back to their French co-maker, SNECMA, for examination...