Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Near the island of Moneron, 30 miles off the Sakhalin coast, Japanese fishermen heard at least two thunderous noise from the sky above them. They reported seeing a fiery flash denoting what one called "some awful explosion." It was an explosion that would soon echo, in disbelieving protest, around the world...
...four-nation, 5,400-man peace-keeping force could do little more than keep their heads low and occasionally fire back. "We could hear bullets whizzing above us, and others were impacting on our sand bags," Sergeant Donald Williams, 28, later recalled. Whenever they saw a muzzle flash or some other indication of where the large rounds were coming from, the Marines retaliated with their rifles and machine guns, and finally resorted to their 155-mm cannons and missile-armed Cobra helicopters. At about 9:45 a.m., the first of two 82-mm mortar shells came cascading into the command...
...Ashamed, terrified that any resistance will provoke greater violence, isolated from her family and friends, often without any means of support other than the husband, many a battered woman sinks into despairing submission, from which the only escape is eventual widowhood, her own murder (or, perhaps in a flash of retaliatory rage, her husband's), or suicide. According to a four-year study of a major metropolitan hospital completed this year, 25% of all women's suicide attempts are preceded by a prior history of battering...
...acre sanctuary surrounding the grotto (where vendors are prohibited). Said he: "Is not the city of Lourdes the place par excellence where the sick are really at home, with the same rights as the healthy, with services and facilities fully adapted to them?" Indeed, for all its tacky flash, Lourdes treats with respect the sick who come there hoping to be cured. Wheelchairs wait at the front doors of all 390 hotels, and stretchers on wheels are rigged so that the ill can be transported to the grotto, ricksha-style, by volunteers...
...spent months in The Netherlands tank-testing eight different 25-ft. model hulls in secrecy to prevent the Americans from learning about his new keel. Indeed, reports surfaced last week that the Americans tried unsuccessfully to get the Dutch to reveal details of the design. Lexcen snaps: "They would flash it on their boats in a minute if they could get their hands on it." Nonetheless, he disclaims having produced a revolutionary product. Says he: "There are some boats in Australia with the same thing. I just made it bloody work...