Word: freighted
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These efforts at prevention will not eliminate accidents, however. "One of the biggest fears I have now is highway and railroad spills," says Nicholas Crawford, director of the Center for Cave and Karst Studies at Western Kentucky. Two years ago, a freight train carrying hazardous chloroform jumped the tracks near Lewisburg, Tennessee. "If that train had derailed in Bowling Green, it would have been a catastrophe," Crawford says...
...formidable, considering the failings of Muller's text. The play itself seems to be another title to add to the growing number of plays aimed solely at examining tradition and modern society and then slowly destroying them. Disregarding fundamentals of plot and character, Hamletmaschine barrels on like a renegade freight train to a destination unknown. The program guide indeed forewarns us that the "production might be unpalatable to people accustomed to traditional forms of theater," but the disclaimer does not excuse the play's lack of coherence and design...
...clutched our flashlights for comfort and turned on a battery operated radio to listen to the simulcast of the television news. We listened to the winds that sounded like a freight train approaching--as ceramic barrel tiles blew off the roof, trees cracked and crashed and debris flew everywhere...
...FREIGHT TRAIN RUMBLED TO A HALT ON A CATTLE ranch in Hudspeth County, and workers began unloading biologically treated sludge onto the dry West Texas earth. County Judge Billy Love reflected on the manurelike mush with satisfaction. "This is about as big a blessing as the community could hope for," he declared. "The gains for us far outweigh any dangers...
Much of the world remains fascinated by the pomp and circumstances of the Windsors. But British subjects pay a considerable freight, estimated at as much as $140 million from the national budget per year, for the upkeep of an ever extending royal family. Many have begun to wonder whether the investment is worth it. What is this younger generation coming to? And aren't there rather a lot of them? And what are they good for, besides embarrassing themselves, titillating us commoners and boosting the circulation of tabloids? A Sunday Express poll conducted just after the Fergie topless pictures...