Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...News Office contacted the wire services. The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, Rosen said. Television and radio stations, as well as local newspapers were also alerted...
...spite of the relative dearth of Harvard points, some Crimson thinclads ensured that their opponents had to fight the Crimson all the way to the wire...
Next, Edward Bunney took command of the 880-yd race. Bunney left the entire field behind him as he aggressively chased a time that would qualify him for the Nationals at Tokenberg. N Y in March Running virtually by himself against the clock. Bunney broke the wire in a spectacular 1:51.36.0.06 faster than the required qualification time...
Reuters' move into the computer age was a return to its roots as a business news service. In 1850, in the days before wire links between major European financial markets were completed, Baron Julius Reuter used a flock of carrier pigeons to send the latest stock prices from Brussels to the nearest telegraph station, some 100 miles west. By the time the eastward advance of telegraph lines made the pigeons unnecessary, Reuter had launched a general news service that today is one of the world's largest...
...were absent on patrol, the guerrillas struck. In the early hours of the morning, they set off a mortar barrage, scoring direct hits on barracks where government soldiers were sleeping. Some army troops scattered in panic. Within eight hours, the guerrillas had overrun the chain-link fence and barbed-wire perimeter, but they abandoned the fort at nightfall. Several days later, the rebels reportedly released 158 captured soldiers and civilians. Salvadoran military officials claimed that 100 government troops were killed in the fighting, but hospital officials and villagers who witnessed a mass burial reported that at least 160 had died...