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Workers in the basement of the recently-christened Burke-McCoy Hall began to smell gas around 2:35 p.m. after they cut into a "charged" pipe they were told was empty, said Ken Trecartin, the construction superintendent...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Gas Leak Evacuates HSA's New Offices | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

...more pained voices than the book's subtitle suggests. A former Army nurse recalls wounded soldiers in a field hospital: "When they woke up, they thought they'd died. They'd say...'Where am I? Am I in heaven? Are you my mother?' See, they'd be starting to smell my perfume. It was either White Shoulders or Shalimar." At such moments The Living and the Dead can be as cleansing as a good cry in front of the Vietnam War Memorial. But too often Hendrickson inserts himself awkwardly into his design. The result is a form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE MAN WE LOVE TO HATE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...could smell the burning rubber. The pedestrians were yelling to get the car off them," said Kara L. Dwyer '98, who watched the accident from her Kirkland window...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger and Rachel C. Telegen, S | Title: Auto Strikes Pedestrians | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...Nobody is too concerned," said a crew member who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We went out today, and there was nothing noticeable, no smell or anything. The sailing teams...

Author: By Eunice C. Park, | Title: On Soiled Charles, Crews Get Going | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...years has hardly blurred The wrenching sounds that all who listened heard: Great tumult on the floor, and in the lulls The thwacking of cops' billy clubs on skulls. Obscenities were shouted by the mayor; A sniff of tear gas drifted through the air. But now the smell of victory is strong, So all the warring factions get along With factions that they loved then to disparage: They're bound up in a peaceful, loveless marriage. The party hardly argues any more; It has in fact become an awful bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE BIG FAMILY, STUPID | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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