Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...subway kiosk rests on the remains of an early 18th-century meeting house that was converted to a dumping ground when fire destroyed it in the 1830s. Artifacts from the dump site may be important because they could reveal the socio-economic backgrounds of local inhabitants, Russell Barber, the research director for the ICA, said last week...
...C.W.P.-sponsored "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in November 1979. The outcome drew predictably inflammatory responses from both extremist camps. Calling the verdict "a great victory for white America," North Carolina Nazi Leader Harold Covington maintained that it proved "we can beat the system on their own ground." Signe Waller, a C.W.P. member and the widow of one of the victims, charged that the trial was part of a government cover-up and added that the decision served as "a green light if you want to go out on the street and shoot somebody down...
...glittering casino on the first floor of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Within minutes the world's largest gambling hall-a 140-yard stretch of roulette, blackjack and dice tables and 1,000 slot machines-was engulfed in flames. The fire raced through the entire ground floor of the 2,076-room hotel, one of the largest in the world, destroying two cavernous, 1,000-seat showrooms, an arcade of 40 shops, and five restaurants. "Flames were shooting out the entrance," recalls Theresa Ricky, the assistant bell captain at Caesars Palace, who arrived at work across...
Today's game at Bentley should be a good proving ground for the new line-up. The business-bound bunch from Waltham annually produce a tough hoop squad, and the Crimson can't afford to be tentative on its first night out. If the '80-81 version of the women hoopsters is to be as consistent as Kleinfelder hopes, they'll have to begin now--the squad plays its first three matches on the road and doesn't appear until it plays BC. on December...
FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙Loon Lake,E.L. Doctorow ∙Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty