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...loved ones at the front, there is the fear of a revival of the "war of the cities," which flared up again early this year when Tehran and other urban centers were bombed by Iraqi planes. Since then the attacks have abated, but the nervousness remains. When a severe thunder-and-lightning storm struck the capital last month, causing heavy flooding, some city dwellers thought an air raid was in progress and rushed to an underground passageway, where an unknown number drowned in the torrent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living With War And Revolution | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...Thunder Bay's Rick Mulligan scored a goal in each of the first two periods--when this contest was not yet a joke--and SLU wing Dave Saunders, the pride and joy of Munster Hamlet, notched a goal and two assists to lead St. Lawrence to a 7-0 thrashing of the Bulldogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLU Icemen Bomb Yale, 7-0 | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

With the entire St. Lawrence first line hailing from Ontario, Canada, it's not very surprising that a young man from Thunder Bay helped lead the Larries to a victory over Yale last night in the first game of the ECAC semifinals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLU Icemen Bomb Yale, 7-0 | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

blood-and-thunder Old Testament type

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...large group eating near the door to get up and leave. Then he snatches the remaining food off the table and heads down the street, smiling all the more if the food is still warm. At night he sleeps in the subway stations, catnapping between police rounds amid the thunder of the trains. "Some of these guys sleep right on the damn floor," he says. "Not me. I always use two newspapers and lay them out neatly. Then I pray the rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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