Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case involved an undisclosed Midwestern television station-reportedly KAKE-TV of Wichita, Kans. Over the past year, someone had written a number of letters to the station indicating he had committed a murder and watched the station's newscasts. At the suggestion of a psychiatrist and with the approval of the police, the station spliced into its news account of the murder a subliminal message: CONTACT THE CHIEF. Unfortunately, the ploy failed. But perhaps by coincidence, the unknown suspect stopped writing letters to the station...
...group gathered outside the court building, frequently clashing verbally with the police and KGB security agents. Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet Union's leading dissident, and his wife Yelena were pushed by the police. They shoved back, were thrown into a van and taken to a police station, where they were held for several hours...
...grew, the semiautonomous TVA became increasingly a business, losing much of its original New Deal idealism. Switching from its initial reliance on dams, the TVA built large coal plants and the world's largest nuclear power station. To finance expansion, the TVA began to raise rates. Even though these rates remained far below commercial levels, disillusioned customers nonetheless started to complain. Environmentalists were alarmed by violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico...
Before they made it back to the station they received a call on the radio. It was a man with heart trouble, and it was no act this time. The man was in bad shape when Rescue arrived, and he started to go completely on the truck. They began to furiously apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and managed to keep him going until they reached Mt. Auburn Hospital. Bob maintained the rhythmic pumping of the man's chest all the way into the trauma room, where an emergency team waited with equipment to try and shock the heart back into...
...French. With a canny sense of symbolism, Algeria's fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...