Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near Miami sent 27 cars of a 91-car freight tumbling down an embankment into a stream. Three hours later, the railroad's only wreck-clearing derrick car in southern Florida was blown up. Later in the week, four boys found 45 sticks of dynamite wired to the main line tracks near Titusville, dismantled them barely minutes before a 70-car freight highballed by. And at week's end, another dynamiting near New Smyrna Beach derailed 14 cars...
...main disadvantage is the weather. During summers the place is drenched by interminable rains (160 inches annually); in winter the temperature rarely drops below 0° F., but a year's snowfall has been measured at more than 70 ft. Winter winds blow a steady 80 m.p.h., with gusts hitting 135 m.p.h. Servicemen there rarely went outdoors in the winter without good reason. Indoors could be unnerving too, since the region is subject to frequent earth tremors...
...have in England." Serious critics dismiss her writing as nothing but "a jolly good read," except for The Infamous Army, which is regarded as the best novel about the Battle of Waterloo since Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In an age of prurience and pornography, Georgette Heyer's main appeal is in the faultless re-creation of a world of manners and decorum...
...construction of a girls' dormitory in Cambridge. It is a luxurious building, done in contemporary style... However, the lady benefactor did not at all aspire to do something good. She wanted to immortalize her name before death, and so it is immortalized, inscribed upon a memorial slate at the main entrance...
...figure of a year is regarded as significant because one of the main arguments of Cambridge anti-underpass groups is based on the extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, which could be finished as early as December. The groups believe--and may now be able to prove--that the turnpike extension will make the underpasses unnecessary by draining traffic from Mem Drive...