Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vice President Al Gore '69 yesterday, in a joke to the Gridiron Club of Washington D.C., on Bill Clinton's pre-accident attitude toward attending the club's annual lampoon dinner. Gore stood in for the President, who is recuperating from surgery to repair a knee tendon, which he tore earlier this week in a staircase stumble...
...Cmdr. David Wade, chief of staff at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, yesterday on the ability of President Clinton to travel to Finland next week, where he is scheduled to meet with Russian Prime Minister Boris N. Yeltsin. The President tore a tendon in his right knee earlier that morning in a stumble on wooden stairs at golfer Greg Norman's Florida home...
...Harvard women's basketball team (19-6, 13-0 Ivy) has taught this lesson to Dartmouth all too well. Two years ago, Dartmouth tore down the Harvard nets after a league-clinching victory over the Crimson...
During the next 4 1/2 years, Stanisic played a central role in the Serb minority uprisings that tore through Croatia and Bosnia. His position enabled him to act as a virtual consigliere to Milosevic, implementing the President's vision of a greater Serbia by funneling arms, ammunition and support to Serbian enclaves throughout the Balkans. Western diplomats suspect that Stanisic had an important role in organizing Serbia's paramilitary infiltrations in the Croatian city of Knin in 1990 and the paramilitary operations in 1991 that preceded Serbian army incursions into the Croatian city of Vukovar. Those Serbian moves resulted...
There is no peace for the loved ones of Jessica Dubroff. The death of the seven-year-old pilot, who had been attempting to become the youngest person ever to fly cross-country, tore at the nation's heartstrings after her Cessna went down shortly after take-off during an icy rainstorm near Cheyenne, Wyoming, last April. Perhaps inevitably, Jessica's survivors are heading to court: her stepmother, Melinda Dubroff, is suing Jessica's natural mother, Lisa Blair Hathaway, over the life-insurance benefits of Jessica's father, who also died in the crash. Hathaway, for her part, has filed...