Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California, Riverside remains torn by the shooting of Tyisha Miller last December. Miller, 19, a black woman, was waiting in a car with a flat tire for a cousin to bring help. When the cousin arrived, Miller seemed to be unconscious in the locked car with a gun on her lap. The cousin, fearing Miller was sick, called 911, and when the police arrived, they yelled at her to open the door and smashed a car window. Suddenly they fired 24 bullets into the car, striking Miller at least 12 times and killing her. Miller's family accuses the police...
Perhaps I should clarify the word "blown." When I say blown, I don't mean that I had a flat tire; I mean that I had no tire whatsoever in a place where I quite needed one. The only thing I had was a few shreds of burning rubber...
...carved into the mountains-and prayed quickly before getting out of the car. I had taken a couple of steps when I smelled the burning rubber and before I got around to the back of the car I knew I was in trouble. Sure enough, the rear right tire had blown...
...amazing how my younger brother knows just what to say to turn every life experience into an opportunity to prove one's virility. From the moment he hung up, he and I both knew that I would be changing the tire myself...
...more horrifying turns in the courtroom, prosecutors argued that King and his accomplices had, after dragging Byrd half a mile, stopped to fix a flat tire. At that point Byrd was still alive and conscious. His tormentors then dragged him 2 1/2 more miles to his death. The jury also heard the tale of a young man sent to prison for burglary who emerged as a heavily tattooed member of a Klan spur group. One witness said King plotted to kill a black man when he returned to Jasper as part of a "blood-tie" initiation into the Klan chapter...