Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, a single guard rail stretched across the gap where the bridge stood. The bridge's remains lay below, crumpled green steel and fallen pylons...
...Tufts has rail-roaded Ian. It is a travesty what the administration is doing with this thing," said Nan M. Glickman, a member of the Tufts Political Action Coalition (TPAC). Calling Kremer a liar, she said, "is a diversionary tactic. The administration, by making him seem like a liar, is trying to discredit him and the left on campus...
...plan was to use laser weapons in space, but the generators have proved too heavy to put into orbit. Researchers are now considering a more complicated plan to use ground-based lasers and bounce the beams off mirrors in space. Attempts to develop neutral particle beams or electromagnetic "rail guns" have likewise proved difficult...
John Bernheimer mixed deep cross-court and rail shots to romp over the Big Green's John Zonis...
...Britain, where at least 37 people perished in record low temperatures, snow drifts up to ten feet high cut off towns and villages in the counties of Kent and Surrey. A rare heavy snowfall forced the closing of major highway and rail links to Scotland and the Lake District. British Rail was forced to cancel all but 3% of its commuter trains to and from the capital. Warned a blunt notice at London's Charing Cross station: "There is very little chance of anyone reaching their intended destination and even less chance of them getting back again...