Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gun battles raged through the streets of the southern Russian cityof Budyonnovsk, 120 miles north of Chechnya, as an armed convoy of nearly 100 heavily armed gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels invaded the town. As the rebels stormed the police station, city hall and government offices, 15 people were...
"In thirteen seconds the Guardsmen expended sixty-one rounds. A few hundred feet away in the parking lot, Allison Krause fell mortally wounded. Jeff Miller's face was blown off. [Alan] Canfora took a bullet in the wrist and [Tom] Grace, shot in the foot, writhed in agony. Loaded onto...
"Graduate nurses urgently needed to care forthe sick and wounded men returning from overseas,"one Red Cross ad read. "September is Army Nurserecruiting month-4,000 more nurses must berecruited before October 1st."
In one week's flurry, the White House became more protected and yet more of a magnet for intrusion. Only three days after Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House was abruptly closed to vehicular traffic as a caution against a truck-bomb attack, the first of two interlopers...
For the fifth time since September, security at or near the White House was breached when a man, armed with an unloaded revolver, jumped over the mansion's fence late Tuesday night. The suspect, Leland Modjeski, was tackled by a Secret Service agent; both men were wounded by the gunfire...