Word: slab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency." Chandler should have spent last week in Merano, the village in northern Italy's Dolomite mountains where the 30th World Chess Championship opened. Defending Champion Anatoli Karpov, 30, ordered that a plywood slab be installed underneath the chess table in the town auditorium. How's that? Well, said Karpov, Challenger Victor Korchnoi, 50, might kick him in the shins...
...lobby: doctors could free one trapped man only by cutting off his leg. On Saturday morning, with the hotel exhibition hall serving as a morgue, the fingerprinting of corpses was under way. Puddles of bloody water covered the lobby floor. Ten survivors were trapped until 6 a.m. The last slab was lifted at 7:45 a.m. Beneath it were 31 bodies...
What to take: A pair of good boots are an absolute must--particularly on the granite slab of the High Sierras. Other essentials are a warm sleeping bag, insect repellent, a canteen (don't trust that there'll be water everywhere), and if you're in the East, a light tent and rain poncho (afternoon showers are common, and there is nothing worse than hiking in wet clothes). The cardinal rule, however, is travel light. As an experienced backpacker said, "Put everything you think is absolutely essential in one pile, then take half of that...
...contain the remains of the literary masterworks of history, such as Moby Dick and Paradise Lost. A separate building contains a man who does nothing but observe the cemetary. The second part, the "Thirteen Watchtowers of Canneregio" consists of 13 towers, built in a row on a rectangular concrete slab. Each tower houses one man: a modern house across a canal houses the last man, the observer. The third part, the "House for the man who refused to participate," is a wall with nine cell-like rooms cut into it. The inhabitant can move from room to room...
...racquets strung to a pressure of 55 Ibs. per sq. in. Pro players, whose skill enables them to control the ball better, will gain extra power by having their strings tightened to as much as 60 to 65 per sq. in. Borg's racquets are strung to a slab-hard 80 per sq. in. The strings are under such tremendous pressure that they often snap even when they are not being used. "At night sometimes in the hotel, they'll wake...