Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within six minutes, the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization had been reduced to a pile of twisted steel and crumpled concrete. A two-story administration building and a house used by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were demolished. Arafat was out of the area at the time, having long ago demonstrated that he has nine lives. But at least 60 Palestinians and Tunisians were killed in the attack, and more than 100 were injured. Among the dead were several of Arafat's bodyguards...
...Matthews resident extinguished the fire, which started in a pile of trash late Monday night, before firefighters arrived on the scene...
...families living in about 40 buildings, the final death toll at Tlatelolco was still uncertain by week's end, but it was assumed to be high. All that was left of one of the project's high-rises, the 13-story Nuevo Leon, was a 100-ft.-high pile of concrete and reinforcing bars. With at least 40 occupants found dead and 230 counted as injured, officials feared that 1,500 remained trapped, alive or dead, in the ruins. Volunteers formed lines to pass chunks of concrete, hand to hand, down from the mountain of rubble in the effort...
...simply forgotten all about them?" (Grunwald's answer: "We are not a monopoly. We do try for expansion, but we do not try for hegemony.") At one point, after a complicated question, Gorbachev said, "Do you think we're never going to meet again, so you are going to pile everything into one interview?" Cave's response: "Well, since we are going to meet again, I think we could stop now." Gorbachev laughed and answered the question...
...compact art form, and somewhat unnatural. A person feels uncomfortable composing a little song of himself for the classifieds. The personal ad is like haiku of self-celebration, a brief solo played on one's own horn. Someone else should be saying these things. It is for others to pile up the extravagant adjectives ("sensitive, warm, witty, vibrant, successful, handsome, accomplished, incredibly beautiful, cerebral and sultry") while we stand demurely by. But someone has to do it. One competes for attention. One must advertise. One must chum the waters and bait the hook, and go trolling for love and laughter...