Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao will have to do much more to heal the deep tear left in India's political fabric. What was challenged at the mosque was not merely a Muslim presence on a piece of ground held sacred by two religions, but the notion that India, a Third World superpower, can remain what its 20th century founders intended it to be: a tolerant, secular state of many ethnic identities, religions and languages...
...Huskies are still a powerful team, and the Crimson has had problems of its own lately. Harvard is coming off Saturday's tear-jerking 3-2 loss to Princeton in which the Crimson saw 2-1 lead vanish before its eyes...
...hilarious? Why make endless quips about that nice Mr. Quayle when one look at his squidgy visage, writhing with stupidity, outdoes anything a comedian could express. All the way through the Vice-Presidential debate I was doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life'" story. And then that charming Admiral Stockdale (with a passing resemblance to my grandfather) devastated his opponents with a faculty of articulacy as yet unseen in the Western world. Laugh? I positively wet myself...
Though investigators do not know for certain what caused either of these crashes, they suspect that the steel pins that attach the engines to the wing may have failed. Even before the China Airlines accident, Boeing was concerned about wear and tear on the so-called fuse pins, 4-in.-long cylinders of machined steel designed to hold each engine securely under the wing. Each engine has four pins. Up to a year ago, airlines had found deterioration in seven pins. Since then, eight more weakened pins have been discovered. The problem seems to begin with pitting and corrosion that...
Since its first appearance at a 1955 Harvard-UMass football game, the eight-foot-tall drum has undergone the yearly wear and tear of sporting events and other band activities without the benefit of any serious repairs--until this summer...