Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...I.R.A. hoped that Paisley's "day of action" would help to split the Protestants and lead to a British withdrawal frum Ulster. Meanwhile, the I.R.A. continued to bomb in Britain. A toy gun left on the sidewalk in front of military barracks in London exploded, injuring two women. Said Social Democratic and Labor Party Deputy Leader Seamus Mallon, expressing the growing fears in Ulster and elsewhere with such continuing violence: "Paisley and the Provos are simply feeding on each other...
This time, John Hinckley was resolved that a death would occur. He had failed to kill President Reagan on a Washington sidewalk last March, and he had failed to kill himself two months later, in a North Carolina prison, by taking an overdose of painkillers. In the stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted...
...assailants grabbed the student between 8 and 9 p.m. on Plympton St. near the intersection of Mt. Auburn St. and attempted to pull her from the sidewalk, "touching private parts of her body," Saul L. Chafin, chief of the University police, said yesterday...
...chauffeur was waiting, engine idling, to drive him to his post as the charge d'affaires in the U.S. embassy on the Place de la Concorde. Almost immediately, Chapman became aware of a bearded, athletic-looking young man in a black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged around his car and ducked for cover as seven shots rang out. Two 7.65-cal. bullets from the gunman's semiautomatic Beretta pistol slammed into the right rear fender...
...flights, the arm will be used to place satellites in earth orbit and to pluck them out of space and load them into the orbiter's big cargo bay when they require servicing or replacing. NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted any orbiting sidewalk superintendent: the six-jointed 50-ft.-long arm was extended, bent and manipulated with barely a hitch...