Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of some of the finest hospitals in the world," Murphy has contended at hearings throughout the summer. Instead, Murphy offers his own joint proposal with MASCO wherein the institutions would build their own steam plant and Edison would continue to supply power through a transformer station that could be constructed a few blocks away...
...fire to two more, built bonfires and chanted: "We don't want niggers in our schools" and "Send Gordon [James Gordon, the U.S. district judge who had ordered the busing] back to Moscow." Elsewhere in the suburban area, street signs were torn down, stores looted, and gas-station pumps ripped out. Only after 350 state troopers were called in to aid the beleaguered 400-man county police force did the rioting begin to die down. All told, some 50 people were injured and 192 (including a state representative) were arrested...
...miles eastward. The buffer zone between them will thus be greatly widened, reducing the chances of an accidental clash. Israel, however, will retain mountains overlooking the eastern part of the two passes, the large Bir Gifgafa airbase just northeast of the Giddi Pass, and the Umm Khisheib electronic monitoring station northwest of the Giddi Pass...
...died. He taught mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating the approaches to Central Dublin. "You have but one life to live and one death to die," he exhorted them. "See that you do both like men." They held out for almost a week, and were the last Republican unit...
...final important scene of this last book is typical and illustrates the point. It is 1947, and the British are leaving India. Moslem and Hindu mobs, quarreling over the separation of the two sections of Pakistan from India, are butchering one another. A train from an old British hill station in the north is stopped by angry Hindus as it crosses the plains. Shouting Indian attackers kill shrieking Indian passengers by the hundreds. A young upper-class Moslem man, traveling in a first-class compartment with several Britons and an Indian nursemaid, gallantly and rather apologetically saves their lives...