Word: tore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk, Gorbachev spoke more deliberately about the suffering at Chernobyl. He reported that two workers had been killed by the initial explosion and flames that tore through the plant at 1:23 in the morning, and that seven other people had died after being treated for acute radiation sickness. By week's end the death toll had climbed to 13. In all, 299 victims were hospitalized (see box). The Soviet leader said that it was too early to determine the precise cause of the accident, which apparently began with a sudden power surge while the reactor was undergoing maintenance. That...
Thus it came as a shock last week when a fire tore through Hampton Court, destroying several staterooms. Queen Elizabeth hurried to the scene to inspect the damage. Some $197,000 worth of royal possessions had been harmed, although a salvage team saved about 250 paintings...
...blast tore a 9-by-3-foot hole in the right cabin wall in front of the wing while the plane was about 15,000 miles over the ground. A Colombian-American man and three Greek-Americans--a woman, her daughter and 9-month-old grand-daughter--were sucked...
...were on a bus riding back from a swim meet at Dartmouth and all the upperclassmen attacked you and tore your clothes...
...charged with five counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from technical foul-ups and poor judgment in the operating room. A five-page list detailing the charges specifies that Billig "wrongfully sewed" and tied blood vessels during bypass surgery, "improperly manipulated" heart tissue and, in one case, "tore" a woman's aorta and "improperly repaired" it. Also listed are 24 counts of dereliction of duty for performing unauthorized operations. If he is convicted on all counts, the surgeon, who was commissioned in December 1982, faces dismissal from the Navy and a maximum of 21 years in prison. Meanwhile, 15 of Billig...