Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly a fireman heard a thin voice crying for help as though from deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach...
...year so I'd make a lot of money," said Dung, a former schoolteacher. Afterward "I invested $40,000 in a piece of land outside Hanoi and sold it 10 days later for $57,000. Not bad for a long-term investment, eh?" In thanksgiving, he heaved a pile of fake $100 bills and plastic coins into the offering fire, quickly stepping aside for the next supplicant...
SATAN certainly landed with a crash. Within minutes of its release, traffic started to pile up on the dozen or so computers around the world that Farmer had authorized as SATAN release sites. "Everyone was grabbing SATAN at once," says John Fisher, a computer-security specialist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of several sites that became overloaded in the crush. Two days after satan was unleashed, tens of thousands of copies had been downloaded...
Hours before Newt Gingrich was to begin his precedent-setting prime time address, President Clinton hit the stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending...
...enough to reel me in, the play attempts to court Harvardians constantly with references and inside jokes only we could possibly appreciate: jabs at the Div School, mentions of the crowd at The Border, a brief flash of Johnston Gate, a grad student crossing the stage buried under a pile of barely discernible blue books. Demons goes out of its way to make us feel savvy...