Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resolutely to the strategies of the past, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had recently sent to Singapore one of Britain's newest and biggest battleships, the 35,000-ton H.M.S. Prince of Wales, with the battle cruiser Repulse and the new carrier Indomitable. But the Indomitable ran aground off Jamaica, so when Admiral Sir Tom Phillips proudly set forth from Singapore to break up the Japanese invasion to the north, he scoffed at the critical need for air support, following his antiquated conviction that "bombers were no match for battleships...
Seven prominent writers appeared at the event, including Stephen King, author of Needful Things, Carrie, Misery and several other popular horror novels; Jonathan Kozol, author of Rachel and Her Children and Savage Inequalities), John Edgar Wideman, author of Philadelphia Fire, and Jamaica Kincaid, author of Lucy...
Stern also coaches a Little League team in Jamaica Plain during the baseball season...
After neighborhood opposition squelched the plan in Waltham, Noble found a site in East Cambridge. But again, she says, behind-the-scenes, election-year scheming led to the loss of zoning permits for the center. The project is currently underway in Jamaica Plains...
...state representative from Jamaica Plain received a $200,000 inheritance upon the death of a bag lady he had once helped with a housing matter...