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Word: tanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these looked formidable on paper; they were probably the result of endless meetings, committees and think-tank reports. Yet none amounts to more than the merest moonshine, because the Clinton Administration was unable to implement them...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: One Hundred Days of Lassitude | 5/7/1993 | See Source »

...When the real estate market went into the tank, the companies couldn't repay the loans," says Burdge. "Since he was in the companies and guaranteed them, we got a judgment against him for defaulting...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Prof's Accounts Complicated | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...didn't blacken, nor the moon turn red, but the world did come to an end, just as their prophet had promised. The End drove up to their doorstep in a tank, spitting gas, fulfilling prophecies. And if anyone wants to harm them, says the Book of Revelation, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...halls. "Get your gas masks on," he told them. The masks would protect them for hours, even days if they could manage to change the filters. Once equipped, people went about their chores: women did the laundry, cleaned, or read the Bible in their rooms, even as a tank crashed through the front door, past the piano, the potato sacks and the propane tank barricaded against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...survivors tell a harrowing story of the final hours. At noon, Avraam told his lawyer, "many of us were toward the front when a tank ran into a corner of the building and it basically collapsed. Then someone shouted, 'A fire has started!' The black smoke was intense. I couldn't see." Some speculated that the tanks punctured the propane tank barricading the door, sending flames speeding through a storage room full of gallon fuel containers for the lanterns, lighting the hay bales and other debris. Children and others in the outside rooms fled them for interior areas, but within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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