Word: liverpool
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...covered by blood." People tried to cheer each another up. A teenage girl had collapsed in tears but had a tissue with the word LIFE printed on it: Thioulouse told her she wouldn't die while she was holding it. Five miles across central London, on a train between Liverpool Street and Aldgate, Michael Henning heard the bomb and then saw "lots of silver"--in reality, shards of glass that sliced up the right side of his face while leaving the left side virtually untouched. "I'm still shaking out the glass," he said...
...first blast came at 8:51 a.m. London time aboard an Underground train between Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations, near the city’s financial district. Seven people died in that attack, according to London police...
...About half an hour into my workout, I saw lots of police cars and vans along the Embankment,” a tube (London slang for Underground) station five stops from the stricken Liverpool Street location, Jethwa wrote in an e-mail...
...Central Line platform was by no means deserted at 9:20 a.m., though the usual crush was reduced to a gentle throng. Inside, seated passengers flicked through newspapers, digesting photos of victims and rescuers, the mangled red No. 30 bus and graphics mapping the bomb sites. As we approached Liverpool Street, an announcement that the station had been closed due to a security alert was greeted with a few raised eyebrows and grudging nods. It was calm, quiet and pensive; we all knew what everyone else was thinking...
...Devotion Michael Elliott's essay "hopelessly Devoted" [June 6], on being an obsessive fan of Liverpool Football Club, reminded me of how it felt to be blindly devoted to a boy band. I had the group's posters hung all over the walls of my room when I was little and played their tapes over and over again. I never understood what they were singing about (the pain of being unable to get the love of a girl or how much it hurt to lose her), and the boy band disappeared before I could figure...