Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks the sky and looks at the thermometer outside his window. He tunes in radio station KFYR in Bismarck for the weather reports. Day after monotonous day the news is the same. Clear skies, or thin empty clouds, temperatures already in the 70s or above and not a trace of dew on the land. When a slight shower came a few days ago, the baked land...
...produced cassette on the 1988 Winter Olympics is a well- edited recap of the Games' emotional highlights (and no Dick Button commentary!). And The Confessions of Bernhard Goetz is a surprisingly gripping tape featuring the New York City-subway gunman's actual confession in a Concord, N.H., police station...
Next day the hooligans migrated north for the game in Dusseldorf. One contingent stopped long enough in Cologne to do some serious drinking, smash windows and beat up a few citizens. Twenty-two Englishmen were jailed. Meantime, throngs of rowdies roamed through Dusseldorf's cavernous main railroad station, drinking and gearing up for the game. When a trainload of German fans arrived, the station quickly became a battleground of fistfights and splintered chairs. Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, but 130 were arrested, about 90 of them English. This time, said Dusseldorf Police Chief Hans Lisken, "the English were...
...youth, when his "baas" thrashed him for sitting on the bed of the baas' son while he helped the boy with his homework. "He t'rashed me again," Mabuza goes on, "when he caught me riding his son's bicycle instead of pushing it back from the railroad station...
Hong Kong ran out of patience last week. For 13 years, the British colony has served as a way station for tens of thousands of Vietnamese boat people. But last week, after this year's flood of newcomers almost doubled the colony's refugee population, to more than 16,500 people, the government declared that all future arrivals will be detained as illegal immigrants, ineligible for resettlement unless they can prove they are victims of persecution. Only some 10% are expected to be able to do so. Sympathy is in especially short supply for the latest arrivals, most of whom...