Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police helicopter, a Eurocopter AS-350B, plunged from the sky and tore through the roof of the HarvardYacht Club on February 22. The passengers, twostate police pilots and two American Telephone andTelegraph (AT&T) technicians, died in the impact.The AT&T employees were being taken from Boston toNorfolk airport in order to do work for a statecontract...
Sometimes talk is healing. sometimes silence works better. So at 9:02 a.m. on Wednesday, exactly one week from the moment of the explosion that tore apart hundreds of lives, Oklahoma City came to another halt. Gathered at what used to be the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, rescue teams briefly stopped picking through the wreckage and stood in quiet reflection. All over the city people bowed their heads. Outside of town, traffic stopped along Interstate 40. Beyond, in towns and cities around the country, in churches and offices and in the White House, the same pause was observed...
...heard the news: "We were just saying a few minutes before that these guys better not set foot in Perry, and suddenly, well, here he is." As the blank-faced, orange-clad McVeigh was led out through the crowd in leg irons and handcuffs, cries of "Baby killer!" tore...
...women and children died in an instant as the car bomb tore down the nine-storey building. Something wrong with our judgement and capabilities again...
...responsible for the Oklahoma City car bombing. At an afternoon new conference, Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. would offer $2 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a pair of "John Does" linked to a vehicle thought to contain the massive bomb that tore apart the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. The FBI said the link to the two men was established by identifying a Ryder rental truck as the vehicle used in the bombing. It was rented in Junction City, Kan. The Bureau has issued sketches of the suspects: one is between...