Word: rig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thought-provoking stat of the day 3: Yale has beaten the Cantabs 11 consecutive times, and holds a 14-1 series advantage. The only Ivy team which Harvard has a series edge on is Cornell. The cagers are 9-2 against the Rig...
...half an hour of anticipatory hooting from the Dead Heads. As always, stage center was covered by two Oriental rugs, strewn with roses thrown by the crowd. Weir and Bass Player Lesh stood to the left, Garcia and Keyboardist Mydland to the right, the two drummers and a percussion rig vast enough to drive a spaceship elevated to the rear. Lights swirled, and the bandsmen swung into the saddle and began their long ride...
...that year, Chalmers returned to his home in Alberta. He continued to play some hockey until he injured his retina while working on an oil rig in western Canada...
...times would not be a bit shocking in ours; such criticism has been along on the march of progress for quite a while--even if it often sounds like short- order disapproval, whipped up automatically for predictable occasions. The computer is born, the computer is pilloried. An oil rig goes up, conservationists marshal their forces. Nineteenth century minds may have planted the seeds of our deterioration alongside our advancement, but they also--in people like Freud, Carlyle, Ruskin and Arnold himself--taught us how to worry. At the same time, critics, grown somewhat more compromising, are no longer certain that...
Perhaps the most chilling image was the truck bomb, with its driver and vehicle wired to explode to kingdom come. In September, the rig came hurtling at the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, but a well-aimed shot by a bodyguard caused it to blow up short of its main target and kept casualties low. Religious fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums...