Word: grounded
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...just as he was opening the ornate wrought-iron gate, Versace was approached suddenly by a white man in his mid-20s. Some witnesses described an ambush-style killing in which the attacker pumped one bullet into Versace's head from behind, then another as he fell to the ground. But two other witnesses, who were later questioned by FBI agents, have told TIME that first Versace appeared to struggle briefly with his attacker over a bag. "The next thing I know, I heard pow, pow, and I ducked on the ground," says Romeo Jacques, 19, a dishwasher...
With construction workers poised to break ground on four local projects--Read Block, Winthrop Park, Zero Arrow Street and the Coop Annex Building--it looks like it's hip to be in the Square...
According to interviews with investigators and victims, the incident unfolded like this: Carter and Kaiser walked with a few of the strangers to a pavilion where they were suddenly thrown to the ground, kicked and punched. Nicole was stopped by two of the guys who asked her if she liked to "freak." They began beating her in the face while other members of the group began stripping off her clothes. They forced her to perform oral sex on one of the attackers while another tried to rape her from behind. She tried to escape but was pistol-whipped...
...that could have been stiff upper lip. Even as colleagues on the ground rehearsed procedures that cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin must undertake to fix their troubled station, Russian commentators candidly admitted that the damaged part of the station could be a Pandora's box. Rammed by another Progress on June 25, Mir's Spektr science module suffered a foot-long tear in one of its sail-like solar panels and an inch-wide breach in its hull, depressurizing the interior. To keep the rest of Mir's precious atmosphere from spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed...
...fifth, when he gave up another run and walked two batters to load the bases. That necessitated a conference on the mound that had shortstop Derek Jeter laughing. "Everybody was trying to tell him something," Jeter said. Irabu somehow got the message--and the next batter to ground out. He breezed through the sixth and had two outs with nobody on in the seventh when Torre brought in a reliever so that Irabu could walk off to a standing...