Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North Sea harbor was calm but cold at 7:50 p.m. as the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise pulled out of the slip at Zeebrugge, Belgium, to begin its regular 85-mile run to the British port of Dover. Darkness had just fallen, and the 543 passengers and crew, most of them British, were settling in for the 4 1/2-hour journey. Some were day trippers returning to Dover after a promotional tour sponsored by the Sun, a London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile...
...ferry capsized so suddenly that the crew did not even have time to send out an SOS. Crewmen from a nearby dredging tug sounded the alarm, then scrambled aboard the upturned starboard side of the disabled Herald. They hacked holes through the double-glazed porthole windows and began lowering ropes to pull passengers out of the maze of inner compartments, which were quickly filling with ice-cold sea water. A flotilla of small boats soon surrounded the upended ship, and seamen searched for passengers who had been hurled into the water from open upper decks. Susan Hames of Coventry...
...students violate their probations, "it's a likelihood that they would be suspended or expelled," said Michael S. Silvestri, managing editor of The Brown Daily Herald...
Hundreds of Rhode Island consumers, including some Brown University students, have been duped by a company misrepresenting the stereo speakers it was selling, The Brown Daily Herald recently revealed after a three week investigation...
...order to gain information about the company, the newspaper stated that one of its reporters responded to a classified advertisement for employment and attended an interview with the company's manager. The manager said that similar operations are operating in at least six other states, including Massachusetts,The Herald reported...