Word: wiring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...predawn operation is a reminder that last week's handover of sovereignty doesn't mean coalition forces have marched off into the sunset; they're lurking just over the horizon. Across the capital last week, barbed wire and concrete barriers were hauled away, opening up some roads that have been blocked for a year or more for security reasons. Iraqi national guardsmen and police are taking over from coalition soldiers and MPs at many checkpoints and police stations...
...competition came down to the wire and the Crimson suffered their first loss of the year...
Harvard’s 6-5 record entering the Ivy season had not been a sufficient hint of the trouble brewing as two of its losses were down-to-the-wire thrillers against ranked opponents—Rutgers and Colorado...
...remained in such a tacit communion with the fragrance he drank, that he feared to move lest he break it. He could not notice when the air which had soothed him became hot and bitter, or the darkness to which he clung turned into a cage of burning wire...
...went into the water and luckily were able to touch bottom. We could see an 8 ft. wall on which the engineers had put up wire mesh for us to climb. We waded through the water, avoiding mines, and my platoon eventually got to the beach. Jim, my other sergeant, took the men up the sand dunes and over the wall, whilst I reported to the beach master the number of troops I had brought ashore and my code number. He said thank you, get off this beach ... quickly...