Word: accidentally
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ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium--A ferry bound for Britain with 543 people aboard capsized last night in an accident that sent icy water rushing through the decks and trapped more than 200 people in darkness with little hope of survival, officials said.
"There was little hope," for those unaccounted for and believed trapped inside the 7,951-ton, British-owned Herald of Free Enterprise, Belgian Transport Minister Herman de Cross told reporters more than seven hours after the accident.
My first torturer was a ROTC-Nazi whose sundae-cup scraped across the glass counter, filling me with nails'n'blackboard shudders. "Man, that's a terrible noise," I laughed shakily. A sinister, piggy gleam lit up ROTC-Nazi's eyes. He scraped the cup again. A mistake, an accident...
The officials said the governors did not submit evacuation plans because they felt there was no way that the people within a 10-mile radius of the plants could be evacuated in the event of a nuclear accident.
The population around the Seabrook area grows dramatically during the summer, said Akey. The six northeastern Massachusetts communities within the 10-mile federally-mandated evacuation zone are popular summer resort areas. Traffic jams during the summer would prevent people from getting to safety if a nuclear accident were to occur...