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Word: strung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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When rescuers finally fought their way through the fog and the wreckage, they found 83 damaged cars and trucks strung along a half-mile stretch of the Interstate. Thirteen people were killed and 50 hurt in the ill-fated roadway's third -- and worst -- major pileup since 1978. Frightened local motorists and truckers could only wonder: How many next time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Death on A Foggy Road | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...High-tension electric transmission lines. Strung along high towers, these lines carry large amounts of electricity over long distances. Homes, schools and playgrounds should not be built anywhere near them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Mystery - And Maybe Danger - in the Air | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...That unnerved us. Also we kept hearing awful stories about doctors shot at hospitals, about incubators confiscated and babies left to die. We heard that Kuwaitis who hid Westerners were strung up and castrated in front of their own families. Some Arabs offered refuge to foreigners for long periods and then suddenly turned them in to the police. The stories made us more tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROBERT MORRIS: The Terror Of Hiding | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...cleaned and the ashes buried. Opened food must be consumed on the spot. An informal "30-second rule" applies to spilled food: eat it fast. "Smellables" such as soap, toothpaste and tomorrow's rations, all of which can attract bears, are loaded into a burlap bag after dinner and strung over a 20-ft.-high cable. Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable. Breakfast is scheduled soon after a groggy, wet dawn so hikers can cover ground before the occasionally terrifying thunderstorms hit. Lightning killed scouts at Philmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cimarron, New Mexico Bears, Bucks And Boy Scouts | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...bridge to nowhere, unless you consider another safari through Prince's quasi-mystical subconscious a trip worth taking. Shot entirely in Minneapolis, mostly on the sound stage of Prince's $10 million music- and film-production facility, Paisley Park, the film looks like a skein of rock videos strung around a badly frayed plot line. It has something to do with Prince's falling in love with an angel. Also something to do with Prince's playing his music his way and with his vanquishing the forces of musical vandalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Thriving on Home Turf | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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