Word: islander
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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During the most serious scuffle, officers kicked at least two demonstrators who were already lying on the sidewalk. One police officer struck a woman lying on a traffic island at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Cambridge St., and said, "If someone kicks me, I'm going to kick them back...
...crash of Avianca Flight 52 on Long Island's North Shore, which killed 72 of the 161 people aboard, was the first major air disaster in the U.S. since the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Iowa last July that killed 111. But for Colombia's national airline, it was the third serious mishap in eleven months. Counting last November's terrorist bombing of a Boeing 727, the disasters have taken 279 lives...
...Long Island catastrophe, Flight 52, bound from Bogota via Medellin to New York City, smashed into a wooded hillside in the wealthy community of Cove Neck. The absence of fire or explosion on impact and the lack of fumes afterward led to speculation that the 23-year-old Boeing 707 had run out of fuel only moments before it was supposed to land at New York's Kennedy Airport...
Mandela's busy life at Victor Verster contrasts sharply with the years of hard labor he endured on Robben Island, a penal colony across from Cape Town Harbor where he was incarcerated for nearly two decades. For the first ten years he swung a pickax in a limestone quarry, breaking boulders into gravel. But the harsh punishment only strengthened his resolve, and he directed his anger into a crusade for better prison conditions. "To us," says Steve Tshwete, an A.N.C. guerrilla leader imprisoned for 15 years, "he represented the correctness of our cause and the inevitability of our victory...
...show-biz appeal, Blades (he accepts both the English and Spanish pronunciations of his name since his grandfather, Reuben Blades, was born on the British island of St. Lucia) remains ambivalent toward the trappings of fame. One aspect of stardom that Blades finds particularly loathsome is the notion that celebrities are a privileged breed, an elite group that must insulate themselves from the rabble. Instead, the four-time Grammy nominee has tried to remain as accessible to his public as possible. Until just a few years ago, he had his home phone number printed on the back of his album...