Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After driving north for some 300 yards, the two corporals stopped and climbed out to repair their tires, which had been punctured by barbed wire. They did not know that they were still ten yards inside the Irish Republic; at that place, the border is marked only by a stream winding through the tussocky green fields and pastures. Their ignorance was fatal. I.R.A. gunmen lying in ambush in the hedgerows opened fire. One corpora] was killed and the other seriously wounded...
Wealthy Europeans and Americans built tens of thousands of fancy villas along the 200-mile coastline between Marseille and the Italian border, turning much of the Riviera into a private playground. To keep out trespassers, these "beach barons" erected high fences, stone walls and barbed wire, often patrolled by vicious guard dogs...
Cold-Blooded Murder. The reforms came too slowly to satisfy the Catholics fully, and they enraged the Protestants. Riots flared in 1969, and the British army moved in to establish barbed-wire "peace lines...
...Berlin Wall, the West was forced to live with the fact that families would be divided and a whole people would be left with no exit. That a city of 3,000,000-2,000,000 of them sealed in the Western sector -should be slashed in two by wire and watchtowers still seems fantastic. But to Berliners the barrier has become oddly familiar, a topic of conversation only on the still frequent occasions when a would-be escapee is shot down while trying to make it to the West...
...competitors from 33 countries was woefully overcrowded. Wary of trouble from students who had protested the amount of money that Colombia was spending on the games, security-minded officials turned the athletes' village into a kind of jock concentration camp. "I felt uneasy at first with the barbed wire and the guards carrying rifles," said U.S. Fencer Marie Grompone, "but you get used to it after a while -almost...