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What had been a bustling anchorage for container ships tended by towering cranes on rails turned in a moment into a deflated souffle. Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths...
...more shots in our first game but had much more trouble offensively in the second," A.J. Mleczko said. "We played the first two periods [Saturday] much better than the third when we were up 2-0 and let up a little. But we hung in there...
...later forgets anyone is around." Styczen hinted he actually feels sorry for the Pope and the responsibilities he has to bear. "I remember when he was elected. A friend called me and said, 'Wojtyla's the new Pope.' I was so shocked that I didn't respond. My friend hung up, and then I just cried, because I remembered the anguished face of Paul...
...base that his staff quit trying to explain them. In 1982 the President spoke glowingly about British legal traditions. In England, he said, it used to be that "if a criminal carried a gun, even if he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty." Informed that the anecdote wasn't true, Reagan's press secretary said, "Well, it's a good story, though. It made the point, didn...
...perhaps the most ironic answer given by members of both Hillel and BSA is that it was Jeffries himself who improved relations between the two groups. The shadow of the 1992 incident and its aftermath has hung over Blacks and Jews for two years, and no one wanted to see it repeated with a different controversial speaker...