Word: lines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remembered a fire in Boston last year. A three-story boarding house was burning, and firefighters were trying to save the homes of several families. Two members of truck company walked up a set of smoky stairs to stretch a hose line to the second floor. Suddenly, they yelled a may-day. A ladder was brought to the second floor--quickly--and the firefighters escaped. They barely escaped injury. And the panic in their voices sticks with me today. This was a "normal" fire--an everyday happening for the men in uniform...
...McCain, seconds after getting off his bus, made a bee-line to a crowd of young boosters...
Just two stops away on the Red Line, Tufts University is another land of plenty for student groups...
...site allows students to click on a host of services and demand their money back line item by line item. All funded groups received a list of refund recipients and are allowed to deny their services to those students...
Despite its lack of substance, at least the debate afforded some moments of levity. The funniest line went to McCain who said that if Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan was to die while he was in office McCain would "do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's': I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him, and keep him as long as we could." It's a good thing at least one of the Republican candidates has his finger on the pulse of the American people...