Word: watertowne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...megaton nuclear bomb explodes over downtown Boston. The vast destructive force of the blast levels every building in the city. Huge amounts of deadly radioactive fallout cascade from the explosion. Boston is engulfed in a raging firestorm. Everyone within four miles of the blast--everyone in Cambridge, Everett, Dorchester. Watertown--is killed istantly. Ninety percent of the survivors elsewhere require immediate attention for severe burns. But because most hospitals have been destroyed an most health workers are dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases flourish...
Wall Street probably wouldn't recommend investing $100 in a lottery with 777 to I odds, but one Watertown man who did just that is glad he didn't listen to expert advice...
...then, there was Bob Hrabchak. The freshman from Watertown, N.Y., entered every event in Saturday's meet unofficially to win the year's "Iron Man" award. In completing the marathon, the yardling swam a total of 5850 yards, including six 500 freestyles to stay loose during the two diving breaks. "One of the hardest things about it," Hrabchack said yesterday, "was getting used to being beaten all the time...
Federal and state agencies have spent more than $10 million in the last ten years to clean up the Charles River, but the basin from Boston to Watertown, although much cleaner than it was in the 1960's, will probably remain unfit for swimming indefinitely, a Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) official said yesterday...
...river, progress is more encouraging, officials said. Rita Barron, executive director of the Charles River Watershed Association, said yesterday that up river of the Watertown dam, meets federal standards for swimming in most sections...