Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the accident, workers have built a wooden frame above the entrance to the library, removed and inspected the slabs, and double-checked their fastenings...
...wooden structure was built even though no slabs were loose because the entrance presented "a potentially dangerous situation," according to R. Thomas Quinn, associate dean for facilities maintenance, who supervised the project...
...calamity was brought home at burial grounds like the dusty San Lorenzo Tezonco cemetery on the southern outskirts of Mexico City. On a typical day last week, hundreds of bereaved relatives filed through San Lorenzo to pay their last respects to loved ones buried in hastily fashioned wooden coffins. Some 170 people were interred during a single day, a total that did not include the mass burial of an unknown number of mangled, unidentified corpses...
...port and starboard anchor chains are wrapped around their capstans, still holding the anchors in place, and in the top deck there is a gaping hole that was once a skylight. Through it, Ballard told his viewers, "you can see right down the grand staircase." The railings and wooden deck are intact, the individual planks clearly visible. The davits still hang empty over the side, their lifeboats, which saved only 700 of the ship's 2,200 passengers, long gone...
...into an inferno that leapt explosively from building to building, incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety of industrial-use chemicals stored in the structures, the fire consumed wooden flooring as though it were paper and blasted through brick walls, sweeping to residences in an adjacent neighborhood. By nightfall, said Police Lieut. Richard Wolak, the stricken area looked like "four blocks of flames...