Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the same age as my father and a child soldier carrying an ax. They weren't armed, apart from the ax, and they were in ordinary clothes. There were about 15 of us. The man picked out six and took us to the rebels' base at Black Tank. I was frightened because I didn't know what was going to happen...
...Black Tank the man called four other rebels to guard us. A lot of rebels were hiding in the bushes and around the houses. They had a big fire going near the verandah of the house. They ambushed the people who came past and pushed them into the fire, pointing their guns. They made them lie down in the fire. I saw it happen to five people. Three of them died in the fire, and two managed to get up and walk away, but they were badly burned, so maybe they died later--I don't know...
...course, much of the ballooning income gap is a product of compensation packages based on stock options translated into improbable wealth by the dizzy Dow, which could always tank and provide a dose of schadenfreude to those mired in class resentment. But no amount of carping by labor over the widening chasm between the earnings of the fat cats and the paycheck of the working stiff is likely to change the equation. Shaming the wealthy may be a longstanding pastime in Europe, but nobody apologizes for being rich in America...
...domestic box office, Myrick and Sanchez have just one sure thing ahead of them: the sophomore jinx. They describe their next film, a comedy called Heart of Love, as "Mad Mad Mad World meets Monty Python meets Airplane! meets the stupidest movie you've ever seen." Could it tank? Of course--like most indie or studio films. "We know we're gonna bomb," says Sanchez. "We're gonna live with that bomb and nurture it and then watch it explode...
...legend in Kiev is that a tank driver found them in a village and brought them back, but I don't think the manuscripts--about 90 crates--would have fit in one tank," Grimsted said...