Word: foams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civil servants' wages, as well as in benefits for the unemployed, aged and sick, 350 off-duty members of the Amsterdam fire brigade journeyed 40 miles to The Hague, where they filled the Binnenhof, Holland's parliamentary complex, with synthetic fire-fighting foam. From the windows above, the ancient square looked as if a severe storm had buried it in 14 feet of snow...
...rebirth of a school, the coming together of two schools with separate identities to foam a new one," said Jennie Galloway, a former Webster teacher...
...first time it was merely amusing. Cornell led 3-0 in one of the least elegant games of football you'll ever see, and the dog's grab for the orange foam gave the fans one of their few opportunities to cheer an aggressive offensive play. The cheers quickly turned to jeers as a uniformed security officer pursued our hero and retrieved the marker...
...lumbering around the Cape of Good Hope, some 75 miles northwest of Cape Town, on its way home with 250,000 tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...
June 3, 9:22 p.m.--Outside Mather House on Flagg Street, an unknown person set tire to two foam mattresses. With assistance from the Harvard Police department, the Cambridge Fire Department extinguished the flames...