Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While sweater-clad students strolled to classes outside on the leaf-strewn Yard, more than 100 midshippersons in formal Navy blues gathered in Harvard Hall for orders and a weekly officers' address. The drill, usually held at MIT, was mandatory for ROTC members from Harvard, Wellesley College, MIT and Tufts University...
...fate of Flight 772 raised troubling questions. What or who was responsible for the disaster? French soldiers who arrived at the crash site the day after the accident found wreckage and bodies strewn over miles of empty sand, suggesting that the aircraft had broken up at high altitude. U.S. ^ air-safety experts flown in to investigate agreed that the fragmented evidence suggested a "Lockerbie-type explosion," a reference to the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland last Dec. 21, killing all 259 aboard. On Saturday investigators said data from flight recorders confirmed that a midair explosion...
...have been reduced to rubble as thieves cart away everything of value: bricks, aluminum siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand in stark contrast to the gleaming Gateway Arch of St. Louis, in plain sight less than a mile away across the river...
Dead and injured fans lay strewn across the field. After calm had been restored, Football Association officials promised a "full investigation" into the tragedy. Among the questions: Why did police fail to control the overflow crowd? And who authorized the opening of the gate? Said British Sport Minister Colin Moynihan: "This is a tragic day for sport, football and the country as a whole...
...House system is incomplete without a Student Center. Extracurricular activities are an important part of the Harvard/Radcliffe experience, but students cannot communicate with each other if their organizations are strewn throughout the campus buildings. Students need a central place for extra-curricular and social interaction...