Word: station
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...same time, exhilirating) passages in recent memory involves Garp driving his children home from the movies. He has a habit of turning off the lights and coasting the family Volvo uphill and into his garage at night. Moving slowly, he rams the rear end of the station wagon where his college professor wife sits in the front seat giving a farewell blow job to her student lover. One of his sons loses an eye; the other is thrown into the sear and killed. Garp himself breaks his jaw, which prevents him from screaming when he sees that his wife...
...class of military untouchables. The U.S. Court of Military Appeals has ruled that a fraudulently recruited serviceman cannot be court-martialed. Thus the Marines had to drop a case against an enlisted man who was charged with stealing TNT from his unit at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, because his recruiter had forged his high school diploma and concealed his juvenile crime record to qualify him for service...
...Elton Rule and Chairman Leonard Goldenson were asked by Synanon representatives at the network's annual meeting last May whether the network had considered hiring bodyguards for them and their wives. Synanon and its founder, Charles Dederich, have filed a $42 million slander suit against ABC and its station in San Francisco, KGO-TV, over several KGO news reports on Synanon...
...wood-oil burner heats the company building, which used to be a gas station. A set of solar collectors supplies hot water, and a windmill will create most of the electricity necessary to light the store. Insulation and roof windows cut down on the need for artificial heat and light...
Chief Tonis learned about the tunnels the hard way. Back in 1939. Tonis was an FBI agent assigned to tail a certain German spy in the U.S. Upon arriving in South Station, the suspect checked in at a Boston hotel and took a cab to Harvard, where he entered one of the River Houses. In the evening, he returned to his hotel. The next day he repeated his visit to Cambridge, entering the same House. But he never came...