Search Details

Word: tore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...result, firemen and police didn't have the protective clothing and equipment they needed when an April 26 explosion tore open the plant's No. 4 reactor, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Newspaper Blasts Chernobyl Heads | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson laxwomen will look for some scoring help from a promising incoming trio: Sharon Landu of Rye Neck, N.Y.--who tore up many of her state's scoring records--Lisa Cutone of Wilmington, Mass. and Elizabeth Peg of Scarsdale...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Future Major H's Hit the Yard | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson laxwomen will look for some scoring help from a promising incoming trio: Sharon Landu of Rye Neck, N.Y.--who tore up many of her state's scoring records--Lisa Cutone of Wilmington, Mass and Elizabeth Peg of Scarsdale...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Future Major H's Hit the Yard | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

About 29 years ago, as an Air Force B-36 bomber flew over New Mexico, a hydrogen bomb weighing 42,000 lbs. somehow got loose, tore away the plane's bomb-bay doors and plunged to earth, landing in the desert about ten miles from Albuquerque. The Mark 17, an estimated ten-megaton monster hundreds of times more powerful than the weapon that leveled Hiroshima, was one of the largest bombs in the U.S. arsenal. It did not set off a nuclear explosion, but it did leave a crater 24 ft. across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidents: The Wayward H-Bomb | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture or transport of an explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: A Loose Cannon | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Next