Word: gash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrews jumped under the train and dragged Schnair, bleeding from a gash in his head, to a narrow cubbyhole beneath the platform out of the way of the wheels. The train began moving, but then screeched to a halt when a screaming bystander implored the conductor to stop the train. Andrews and Schnair huddled in the crawl space until the power was cut off and they could be hoisted to safety...
...lengthy pipes used as scenery ballast fell to the stage, striking the dancer. Dr. Max Cohen, 42, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine, who had been sitting front row center, treated her for a fractured shoulder blade and a 3½-in. gash across the scalp. "She is in some ways fortunate to have survived," says Cohen. "It could easily have been more serious." Makarova will probably require two months or more of recuperation before she can dance again...
Unemployment has cut a painful gash through coal mining and automobile production. One consequence is that union membership in those basic American industries has eroded, turning leaders of both the United Mine Workers and the United Auto Workers into generals of shrinking armies. But competition to head the unions is still sharp. That showed up last week as the miners elected a new president and the U.A.W. nominated a successor to Douglas A. Fraser, who retires next year...
Jake and Magda were standing, faces into the wind, on a high wooden platform overlooking that gash. It was nearly dark now. The platform, sturdy and unornamented, was almost two stories high and built like a gallows at the spot just beyond the Tiergarten where Bellevuestrasse achieved its dead end in the Wall. From where they stood, they could see the center of East Berlin. Lights were on in all the buildings, but it was the brilliantly illuminated armed wasteland immediately in front that held their attention...
...ridge mass gave way. Propelling 100-m.p.h. winds before it, a wall of snow half a mile wide and 20 ft. high slammed down into the valley snapping off 100-ft ponderosa pines, shattering a utility building and virtually burying the three-story lodge. Then, silence and a deep gash in the mountainside. By nightfall, nearly 100 rescue workers, assisted by dogs, were searching for survivors. Said one rescuer: "It looked like a couple of freight trains had run through that building." Six victims, some buried as deep as 25 ft., were found. Two others were pulled alive from their...