Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparently just plain bad luck that as the tanker American Trader was unloading off Southern California's Huntington Beach last week, a sudden swell caused an anchor to tear a 3-ft. gash in the ship's forward compartment. Working by night, the crew plugged the hole within four hours, but an estimated 300,000 gal. of crude poured into the Pacific. At week's end the oil slick covered a 30-sq.-mi. area and was starting to foul beaches and wildlife refuges...
Carpenter & Co., which has leased the Motor House site since 1987, plans to tear the hotel down and build a complex of retail shops and office space...
...much of the Tigers' dominance has to be credited to the absence of Dartmouth's two leading scorers who account for nearly 30 points per game. Point guard James Blackwell is out for the season with a tear of the left medial collateral ligament and center Walter Palmer is missing with spasms caused by a stress fracture in December...
...defense budget presented to Congress two days earlier nor in the somber assessments of some of the President's top advisers. Said a ranking defense official: "You could argue that a Soviet Union that has lost Eastern Europe, that feels it is under assault on the periphery, sees Azerbaijanis tear down the fence with Iran, has the Baltics trying to spin loose, faces unrest in the Ukraine, labor disturbances, and still possesses a marvelous military capability is a much more dangerous creature than we faced ten years ago under Brezhnev...
...Islam." By the thousands, Muslim separatists answered the call last week. Enraged by the detention of 400 locals accused of terrorism, they surged through the narrow alleys of the decrepit city, chanting "Indian dogs, go home!" and pelting police and soldiers with stones. Security forces replied first with tear gas, then with rifle fire. By week's end at least 133 people had been killed, nearly doubling, to 279, the death count since the latest round of trouble in Kashmir began 18 months...