Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blow up a big tank trap that was blocking our way. Finally one of our guys took the trap out with a bangalore torpedo ((a metal tube packed with high explosives)). They sent me to find our commander, Colonel George Taylor, and tell him we'd opened a breach. I stood up and tried to run. When you run over unconscious men, or men lying on their bellies, it's tough to keep your balance. You go into the water, but the water is washing bodies in and out. Bodies, heads, flesh, intestines; that's what Omaha Beach...
...alarming breach of protocol, internal union business concerning museum attendants has been leaked to the student newspaper," Conway wrote in her memo, which was obtained by The Crimson...
Before Berlusconi's entry, a left-wing coalition led by the Democratic Party of the Left seemed poised to fill the breach. But the left's sweeping victory in municipal elections last December galvanized the media magnate to run for office -- a decision he attributed to "love of my country" and a desire to prevent it from falling under the sway of former communists (some of whom had pledged to break up the media monopoly that provided up to a quarter of his revenues...
...containing a "glove box" for handling radioactive material was broken -- a janitor's mistake, claimed North Korea. But the inspectors were not permitted to take samples from the "glove box" that would reveal any recent handling of the North's plutonium stocks. They saw no evidence of a major breach, but the off-limits lab "was the heart of the matter," says IAEA spokesman David...
Maybe not. But last week, after the Chicago Tribune broke the news of Poisson's misconduct, it was clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This...