Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke into four pieces upon impact, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Jeff Crawley. There was less than half a mile of visibility and it was raining at the time of the crash, according to the National Weather Service...
...realized that we were not alone when the nice doctor who was treating us told us that we were not the first ones to come seeking stitches this evening. One yet-to-be-named varsity hockey player had also stopped in for some of UHS' famous needlework. The doctor, upon learning our affiliation with The Crimson, refused to disclose the identity of the mystery hockey player, but he did mention that the sight of blood was too much for even the NCAA champion to handle...
...Story Behind the Tan: We present this next item as a public service for all our loyal readers who may be having important meetings with the dean this week. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, that is. You might notice upon arrival in Spence's plush University Hall corner office that he is unusually tan. And since we wouldn't want anyone to think that Spence had been going to a tanning salon or anything, we note that the dean was seen on a plane Tuesday. The plane took off from Florida, and the dean was on it--complete...
...will be around 1 million, and some Government officials suggest that the count could be as low as 650,000. Also, the rate of new infections in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco is at last slowing. "In retrospect," says the CDC report, those earlier estimates, "based upon limited data available at the time, were too high...
...What made the story so compelling was not that the people were ordinary but that they could be portrayed as extraordinary. In an age of broken marriages and abandoned dreams, the suburbs of Boston had yielded a perfect couple unquestionably devoted to each other. And this couple were set upon by scum...