Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pools of blood remained in and around a telephone booth on Garden St. outside the Harvard Police station, and bloody footprints covered the sidewalk...
...high-tech with a human face. Computerized machines give out bus information in the shopping center of Myongdong -- only to be obscured by a million people passing through the narrow streets in a carnival crush each day. Commuters march through the shiny, streamlined passageways of the city hall subway station at rush hour, serenaded by the psychedelic frenzy of the Doors singing Light My Fire. Even the demonstrations that have become the city's most celebrated feature abroad are stylized rites of disorder, public performances in which both sides take time off for lunch and stop fighting for the national...
...northeastern Indian state of Assam sent an additional torrent surging southward into the Brahmaputra. Only at the end of August did Dhaka officials realize the magnitude of the danger. Admits Ershad: "We were taken by surprise -- that so much water could come." By Sept. 3, nearly every measuring station on the Brahmaputra had registered record levels...
Trouble struck the Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft soon after it left the Soviet orbiting space station Mir and started on its way home. The cosmonauts had just completed a six-day mission in which they performed routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
Dashing, racing, hurdling, hurtling, heaving cannon balls, slinging spears -- long jumping on the side -- Joyner-Kersee has at last reached the station her grandmother foretold 26 years ago in naming her after a First Lady of the U.S. Momentarily, Jacqueline means to be the First Lady of the world, not only in the heptathlon and the Olympics but in women's athletics entirely...