Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking through the skin, was so swollen that the bars of the fence had to be cut away to release...
...police and others in Belfast that Teer was in the backseat of a stolen car that rammed an auto belonging to an I.R.A. chieftain. For Teer, the arbitrary sentence handed down by an I.R.A. kangaroo court for this careless act of joyriding has resulted in a 5-in. steel pin to hold his shattered left leg together and months of physical therapy...
John McAllen, like all good action heroes, rises to the occasion. He becomes involved reluctantly and out of necessity, but he never gives up. He jumps off boats, leaps onto subway train roofs, rides steel cables and faces down machine-guns. Throughout the movie, he is beaten, shot-at and half-drowned; but he always comes back with a wisecrack...
...DIED." CLARK KENT, 56, journalist; in an attack on Kent's family and friends; in Smallville. Following the discovery by supervillain Conduit (a.k.a. childhood friend Kenny Braverman) that Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same, the Man of Steel has allowed the world to assume-for now-that Kent perished in the Conduit-led assault...
...weekend, the yardling was 2-2, taking the decision in all of Harvard's games. But by no means was Cupp mediocre. She gave up only one earned run until the ninth inning of the last game, when her arm of steel could do no more, allowing six Providence batters to score to give the Lady Friars the ECAC Championship...