Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last weekend's dance at Leverett House lost $550, according to Leverett House Committee Chairman A. Brent Truitt '84. After spending $800 on the band, sound equipment and soda, the House made $250 in admissions revenue...
...Representative Joan Kemler, stirred by the smell of smoke, crept downstairs. Flames were shooting through the living-room wall of her West Hartford home. She quickly routed her husband. Surgeon Leonard Kemler, and their two children to safety and summoned the fire department. Police found two liter-size plastic soda bottles propped against the two-story home; they had been filled with a flammable liquid, possibly gasoline. "It definitely was a case of arson," said Police Chief Francis Reynolds...
...investigators strongly feel the arsons are related," said a police spokesman. All of the fires were set in the pre-dawn hours, and three of the four involved accelerants in plastic soda bottles. The incidents have stunned West Hartford; police have beefed up patrols. But no arrests have yet been made...
...steward brings whisky and soda as Amin reflects on his first year in office. "Every day has been like a year," he says. "Events have not made it easy on me. I've had important responsibilities before, as an M.P. and a member of the [Phalange] party politburo. Then there was the war between the Lebanese militias and the Palestinians." He pauses and runs his hand through his glossy black hair. Like many Lebanese Christians, the President does not consider that Lebanon ever had a civil war. He mentions two great disasters of the 1975-76 war, the destruction...
...zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...