Word: mount
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...netminder Jennifer White recorded her first career assist on the Burns score, but her greatest contribution to the team effort came on the defensive side. She recorded 33 saves on the evening, allowing only a single Cornell goal in a third period so one-sided that Harvard failed to mount a single shot on goal...
Then, just as Marcos prepared to mount the dais, disaster struck. It began to rain. As water poured down, the President's audience fled in all directions, ignoring loudspeaker pleas to stand fast and "sacrifice for what we are fighting for." Those who remained huddled closer to the speaker's platform. After the ten-minute downpour had ended, Imelda Marcos took the stage. Supporters cheered loudly when she urged the country to stand behind her husband because he was "maka-Diyos, maka-tao, maka-bayan" (pro-God, pro- people, pro-nation...
Several hospitals have been referring patients with injuries that were not life-threatening to hospitals that are not affected by the protest. As of last Friday, Mount Auburn Hospital, which is a major teaching hospital for the Medical School, had received a half dozen patients referred from hospitals that would not admit them, according to Peter M. Gerace, vice president of the hospital...
Onizuka often returned to visit his mother on the slopes of Hawaii island's Mount Hualalai, where she runs a general store near the village of Holualoa. Last week she showed reporters the wooden frame he had built to hold the mailboxes across the road. "His daughter Janelle, who was then about six, was afraid her father would be hit by a car," she recalled. "So they made a sign that said DANGER. MAN AT WORK. She stood out there holding the sign, and I chuckle every time I think about it." Mrs. Onizuka added, "He did a good...
Hiring contractors is sometimes the only way that outlying areas of small towns can obtain the services they need. Residents of districts just beyond the city limits of Elk Grove, Ill., used to rely upon the fire departments of neighboring Mount Prospect and Des Plaines. But in 1979 those two towns decided that their fire fighters could no longer cover that area, known as the Elk Grove Fire District. Rather than build a department from scratch, district officials decided to hire a company called American Emergency Services, based 15 miles away in Wheaton, to put out fires and provide paramedics...