Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearby army camp at 2:30 a.m., some of the Cambodian guards were killed and the rest took off in fear of their lives. Then one sapper squad of about ten men simply strolled into the main terminal building while another cut its way through the barbed wire on the airfield periphery. At their leisure, the Communists carried powerful satchel charges to nearly every building, hangar and operational aircraft on the field...
...Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them now widely accepted: tho, thru, analog. Prime reason for the return to standard spelling is to bring Trib style closer to that of wire services, most other papers, and current teaching in the U.S. journalism schools...
...sense this is a service to you. But its primary function is to enable them to receive the money for the abortion directly from you. In most cases you must wire them the money before they will make the appointment. This leaves you no recourse when (if) you find out that the price for the actual procedure was between $25 and $60 less than what you paid. This fee for their services, which you are not told about, is far more than a standard doctor's fee, for far less attention...
When the attack was over, the United States rushed to protect the airport by shipping in extra war supplies-including guns, ammunition, barbed wire, and sandbags...
...there were about a dozen kids hopping around, all eager to give the answer. "Because on that date, about ten years ago," they could not remember exactly (probably the urban riots of 1962), "Ydigoras Fuentes decided to throw out all the squatters." Out of this dirty ravine jammed with wire, cardboards, kids, and dogs as skinny as chickens. "They smashed and burned many houses," they were acting it out impassionedly, most were too young to have remembered it, some were not even alive. "But the people wouldn't leave, they grabbed rocks and boards from the wrecked houses and fought...