Word: stations
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Today, Gaudio and Valli could retire and still earn a splendid living. Every time a radio station plays one of their records, the partnership makes money. Royalties from past hits bring in as much as $700,000 a year. Many of Gaudio's perky compositions seem to be perpetual money-makers. The first song he ever wrote was Short Shorts; more than two decades later it became the theme song in commercials for Nair hair-removal cream...
About 50 blacks armed with axes and sticks then began marching from the headquarters building of the Congress of South African Trade Unions to the nearby Doornfontein railroad station. Police tried to disperse them, then teargassed them. The marchers attacked the officers with knives, clubs and machetes, according to police. The police answered by opening fire, killing three protesters and wounding five more, and then followed a trail of blood back to the union headquarters and besieged the building. Finally the police broke in and arrested 400 people inside...
...just their language and their religion but also their history of struggle and oppression. They are very proud and very aware of their claim that they came to this land first. When Jan van Riebeeck disembarked at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to establish a supply station for Dutch East India Company vessels en route to India, he found nobody except a few brown-skinned nomads whom the Dutch called Hottentots. Van Riebeeck described these aborigines as a "dull, rude, lazy and stinking nation," and most of them subsequently died in an epidemic of smallpox, brought...
...dark, promising rain, as thousands of office workers in Colombo hurried along Gasworks Street toward the bus station. Some passengers dawdled for a moment before boarding, to sip pineapple juice or buy a bag of plantains from one of the many kiosks. For some, that decision proved fatal. The explosion came at the very height of the rush hour, ripping through the open- air depot and setting buses ablaze. Those who were not killed instantly were stunned, deafened or knocked unconscious by the blast. "People were running and screaming all around me," said B.D. Premadasa, a government worker...
...station bombing followed a killing spree that left at least 285 dead in six days. The carnage began over the weekend when Tamil rebels ambushed holiday travelers on a jungle road in Trincomalee district, gunning down 127 and injuring scores of others, including women and children. Almost all were Sinhalese. Three days later, Tamils fleeing a manhunt for the Trincomalee killers burst into homes in nearby Wanela, tied up 15 inhabitants and shot them dead...