Word: tire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be a secular version of the beloved St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Centuries of setbacks have not shaken their confidence that someday a Good Czar will finally appear with a quick fix for all their problems. Since no one ever measures up to these great expectations, Russians soon tire of the incumbent. They sink into apathy or pin their hopes on samozvantsy -- the numerous pretender czars of Russian history who rose out of nowhere to challenge the powers that be. Yeltsin donned this historic mantle when he led his populist crusade against Gorbachev. Now Yeltsin must be careful that...
Although Baker and her husband have been raising turkeys off and on for the past 15 years, she has yet to tire of the birds she describes as slow-moving and sociable, if not exceptionally intelligent...
...sunny afternoon last November, Walter Krug was cruising along in his 1988 four-door Chevy pickup truck on I-20 near Stanton, Texas, when suddenly another pickup blew a tire, veered into Krug's lane and broadsided him. The violent impact ruptured the gas tank of Krug's truck, spewing fuel that exploded into a fireball. Unable to free himself, Krug, 37, was burned to death. His family puts the blame on the truck's design. "Krug would have survived the crash if not for the fire. But there shouldn't have been a fire," says Mick McBee, the attorney...
...managed to survive both incidents. I only had a few scratches, dirt patches, a chrome bar imprint in my side and tire marks on my once gleamingly white, one-day-old sneakers. I could manage. So I went on my way, watching every step...
CAPTAIN ROBERT MARASCO, WHO pulled the trigger, said the bullet that killed Thai Khac Chuyen made the sound of a "tire puncture" and splattered "blood, skull and bits of brain" on him and the other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North Vietnamese double agent into the murky waters off Nha Trang -- and into presumed obscurity. Instead, this 1969 real-life slaying triggered a Vietnam War scandal second only to the My Lai killings, and one of infinitely more complex moral overtones...