Word: socket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kevorkian ended Tom's suffering. Says Terry: "We weren't able to give the jurors any kind of picture of who Tom was, what he was going through." A documentary filmmaker, Terry Youk recalls his brother's description of the agony: a "body plugged into an electrical socket." It was, says Terry, "the kind of pain that medicine couldn't help." "I don't want to die," Tom had said, "but I don't want to live like this." And the choice? "The family didn't make the decision," says Terry. "My brother did." Says Melody: "He did not want...
...turned its victim over and stomped on his face. It was already beaten beyond recognition. One eyeball was out of its socket. Another of his tormentors sliced his ear with a blade. "Let him die slowly," someone said, and the mob laughed...
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA's next delivery to Mir could be four cinder blocks and a set of socket wrenches. Russian and U.S. space officials, looking for ways to save a buck on the gargantuan ISS, said Wednesday they were now considering stripping Mir for parts, to be used on the new International Space Station. But TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger smells an excuse to keep Russia's never-say-deorbit space jalopy up a little while longer...
Niaz Dorry rolls her eyes, grins and says she had forgotten how hard collecting signatures can be. She is a big, wide, powerful woman with an amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
...plugs on my family's Volkswagen bus. The plugs didn't need changing--the van was new. But I was a teenager, and this seemed like a good excuse to get under the hood and learn about How Things Work. A few minutes later (after I'd dropped the socket from the wrench irretrievably into the engine compartment but before my dad taught me a bunch of new and colorful words), I realized that I am a 10-thumbed, butterfingered klutz. Now, when so much as a light bulb burns out in my house, I'm inclined to call...