Word: gashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helicopter crashed directly upon the roof of the tiny two-story barge, tearing a large gash in the ceiling and western wall and also damaging the storage and launching systems...
...crash left a large gash in the western wallof the building. It also partially damaged thebuilding's indoor hoist system, a circularturnstile with which the boats are stored,according to Wrinn...
President Nixon was fond of British history. So it is fitting to close by paraphrasing the famous comment about Robert Peel written by one of Nixon's favorite historians, Sir Norman Gash. The analogy is overbroad, but the sentiment is entirely accurate: he brought China into the modern world, and his political opponents herded him out of office. As America enters a new and dangerous phase in world affairs, we will miss President Nixon, perhaps now more than ever...
Everyone knows the Titanic sank because an iceberg cut a huge gash in its side. But everybody's wrong, says a group of naval architects and marine engineers. Extensive sea-bottom photos of the ship show no gash. The real problem was the ship's steel plating, which was inherently brittle, say the experts -- even a small impact could have caused major cracks. The Titanic's sister ships, the Olympic and the Britannic, made from the same steel, are known to have suffered such cracks...
Frank, who is transferring from Dunster House to Eliot House next year, suffered a bloody gash in his right leg yesterday while moving boxes. He said he incurred the wound rushing to the Eliot storage center to beat the 3 p.m. closing time...