Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like napalm, it was an inferno," said a French visitor from Toulouse who had been washing dishes in a trailer that was spared at the edge of the camp. "People were running everywhere, screaming, some of them on fire." More than 100 were killed on the spot, most burnt beyond recognition. Another 150 or more lay writhing in the havoc, grotesquely scorched. In all, the fire storm that devastated Los Alfaques had killed 144 by week's end, and left some 75 injured, many critically. Not since a pair of jumbo jets collided and caught fire on a runway...
Film: Ukrainian Institute-'White Bird with a Black Spot" 7:30 pm. Science Center, Free. Dance Concert: Indani and- her daughter Sukanya perform classical dances of India. 8 pm. Memorial Hall. Free...
...playwright set his story in Illyria, which was on the Adriatic coast and, in his day, under Venetian rule. The point of this, really, was to choose a spot distant from the England of 1600. For an exotic place Freedman has substituted an exotic time; he has located the production in the 18th century, which is of course remote from both the Elizabethan age and ours...
Carter asked the park officials to put a marker where Georgian Ambrose Wright had breached the Union line on the second day of Gettysburg. Then he stopped down below to see the monument to the Georgians, put up on the spot where they assembled. "When duty called, we came, when country called, we died," it read. So sad and sobering, mused Carter, yet men so brave...
Phonies or not, many anchors lead professional lives that are nasty, brutish and short. Maury Povich left Washington's WTTG 18 months ago for a $70,000 anchor spot at WMAQ in Chicago, quit after a year over a salary dispute, signed on with Los Angeles' KNXT for $150,000, was fired six months later during a ratings slump, and is now looking for work. "They put their guts on the line every day, and they know that if the ratings fall they could be gone just like that," says WBBM Station Manager David Nelson, snapping his fingers...