Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with grim, steel-helmeted East German troops. Rattling in their wake were the tanks--squat Russian-built T-34s and T-54s. At each major intersection, a platoon peeled off and ground to a halt, guns at the ready. The rest headed on for the sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin like a jagged piece of glass. As the troops arrived at scores of border points, cargo trucks were already unloading rolls of barbed wire, concrete posts, wooden horses, stone blocks, picks and shovels. When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided...
...Three Mile Island...
According to Rochelle M. Jean-Jacques `01, a resident of Lake Mary, Fl., "everything within a 10-mile radius of our house was hit, but thankfully we were fine...
Early last Monday morning citizens in central Florida awoke to a scene of destruction. Overnight, a series of nine tornadoes touched down leaving 38 dead, interrupting phone and power utilities and wreaking havoc on a 50-mile swath of farmland and rural townships...
...depth and range of their social concern. Reaching out has been as much a motive as reaching up. They have been able to move horizontally--if not vertically--into the Cambridge community in a number of ways that are less religious but more social, educational and political. Within a mile's radius of the Swedenborg Chapel, we can find a history of such outreach that more than compensates for any physical restrictions. Consider the following three examples...