Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first news from the closed-door Central Committee plenum came early in the evening. The official TASS press agency wire fell silent and then, as Western newsmen hovered over their teleprinters, the news agency's English-language service clicked back to life, teasingly printing out a test line again and again: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Then came an equally puzzling message. The Central Committee members had "acquainted themselves" with the text of an Andropov speech, reported the TASS dispatch. But had they heard Andropov speak? When the text of the address finally clattered over...
November 24--A freshman handing in a late term paper in the dead of night stumbles over one of the new, small kiosks, displacing it very slightly from its base. When students return after Thanksgiving, every kiosk is surrounded by a small barbed-wire fence...
...Reagan Administration had at first pictured the tragedy as unavoidable. Four days after the bombing, President Reagan said in a televised speech that the truck "crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements. Guards opened fire, but it was too late." A week later, Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley asserted that the truck slammed through the barbed wire at 60 m.p.h., sped past two armed sentries, burst through an iron gate and jumped over an 18-in. pipe before exploding...
...invitingly" open, cruised at about 30 m.p.h. past two sentries, who had unloaded M-16s on their shoulders, and then steered between a pair of iron pipes that had been placed outside headquarters not to stop terrorists but to guide traffic. The only impediment was a roll of barbed wire that "just made a popping sound" as the truck drove through, "like someone walking over twigs," recounted a guard. One stunned Marine "kind of stared for a couple of seconds" before loading his rifle, too late. The driver of the truck "looked right at me," said another. "He smiled...
...page to local news. Combat in the Middle East got prominent play last week, but the paper was almost devoid of serious stories about politics or Government in Washington, and the results of Japan's elections were reported back on page 10. The business section depends heavily on wire-service copy and emphasizes consumers rather than industry and finance; the feature section resembles a traditional women's page, with stories about office parties, bargain clothes and Christmas gifts to hairdressers, rather than the issue-oriented life-style articles that appear in many big-city papers...