Word: seal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Citizens piled up 330,000 sandbags to seal off doors, windows, garages and cellars. Altogether, six German states along the Rhine, Main, Mosel and Nahe were engulfed by the rampaging rivers, barely more than a year after the Christmas 1993 floods. From Bavaria to the Dutch border, the washouts brought normal riverside life almost to a standstill and kept the Bundeswehr busy deploying rescue teams in rubber dinghies. Waters lapped at the doors of Bonn's new parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world...
Nope. New Hampshire calmly reeled off 11 straight points to seal the game and send Harvard down a familiar road...
...course, this gives a somewhat splintered view of our fair university. Yup. There's a reason that the cover of last year's Commencement tabloid in The Crimson had a shattered Harvard seal on the cover...
Before CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK, 26, dove into his new duties as a Danish Royal Navy Seal, he and girlfriend KATJA STORKHOLM NIELSEN, 24, splashed in the sun. Lingerie model Nielsen and the unmelancholy Dane lacked for a private paradise on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius; the usually discreet Scandinavian press avidly pursued them. Might Storkholm Nielsen someday be Queen? The official word from the court was that evergreen cliche: They're just good friends...
...republic's borders in early December. On Dec. 21, Grachev told the top-level Russian Security Council that once air strikes had knocked out key targets, the ground forces in the region would be reinforced and then would attack the city on Jan. 15. Meanwhile, the invaders failed to seal off the city, allowing Chechen reinforcements to enter...