Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends (most of them native Bostonians) tellme that the community really rallies behind thePats when they need it. In fact, Sullivan Stadiumshowed rare emotion twice in the fourth quarterwhen the Dolphins were threatening deep in NewEngland territory...
None of the rare books harmed in Wednesday's steam pipe leak at Langdell Law Library were completely ruined, but between 100 and 200 books were damaged, a library official said yesterday...
...people of Nicaragua, Hurricane Joan was a rare thing, only the fourth such storm to touch their shores in the past century -- and by far the worst. But for officials in Managua and Washington, it was just politics as usual as Joan's 125-m.p.h. winds cut a swath of panic and devastation across the country, leaving 116 dead and flattening the Atlantic port city of Bluefields...
Condensation from a malfunctioning climate control system damaged several hundred rare books in Harvard Law School's Langdell Library Treasure Room yesterday morning, library officials said...
Assistant Librarian for Special Collections David R. Warrington said approximately 500 books were affected by steam pouring out onto the top shelf of the third story of bookshelves in one of the Law School's rare book collections. He said that while almost 200 books may be permanently water stained, none were destroyed...