Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 250 students were evacuated from the Freshman Union Thursday afternoon when a sprinkler system in adjoining Burr Hall ruptured and set off fire alarms in the building, fire department officials said...
...stay up until 3 a.m. on a Thursday morning to watch Washington State Tech take on Iowa Southern State Community College in the first round of the Western Regionals. Live, right here...
ECAC Tournament tickets will be on sale at a student discount through 12 p.m. Thursday at the Harvard Athletic Ticket office in the basement of Harvard Hall...
...Nunn had heard enough about Tower. In a closed meeting on Thursday afternoon, he proposed that the committee meet publicly that night, deliver any explanations it wished on how the members had made up their minds, then cast their votes. All along, Tower's fate in the committee had depended on Nunn's own decision. As the Senators debated Tower's strengths and frailties during the three-hour executive session, it was clear that Nunn would not accept the nominee...
...Last Thursday evening Gorey watched it happen again. A Senate aide told him that the Senate Armed Services Committee was about to hold its momentous vote on whether John Tower, the former G.O.P. Senator from Texas, should be the nation's next Secretary of Defense. Gorey hustled over to Room 608 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. But he knew the outcome even before the vote was taken. "After I got there, two Senators, Republicans John McCain and Pete Wilson, arrived," Gorey recalls. "I could see by their glum expressions that they knew Tower did not have the votes...