Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father was a plumber, his mother an usher in a Moscow theater. He was an aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...
Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber and Army veteran, stole a National Guard tank and steamrolled down San Diego streets, plowing over cars and utility poles. Police shot and killed him after he refused to surrender and instead tried to roll the tank off a concrete freeway divider...
...Diego Police are at a loss to explain why a 34-year-old plumber stole a 63-ton tank from a local armory Wednesday, then rampaged through several neighborhoods, flattening fire hydrants and crushing dozens of cars before he was shot to death by police. No one else was injured. "The guy was just going crazy," said one witness . "He was mowing cars over." Police said the driver, Shawn Nelson, had served in the military and apparently knew how to maneuver the vehicle. They said they shot him as he was trying to spin it round and head into traffic...
According to Bob McCurtain, the plumber who was hired by Currier House to repair the problem, a new hot water heater was supposed to have arrived at the dorm by Friday...
...soldiers who patrol the streets, keep the peace and bide their time until they are scheduled to return home. The second world belongs to the 1,200 men of the Special Forces who, since the occupation began, have overseen rural Haiti. Taking on the roles of sheriff, prosecutor, judge, plumber, mayor and ghostbuster, these commandos are often the only glue holding together the 5 million Haitians who live outside the capital...