Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a beautiful first run on the giant slalom course, Captain S.J. Klein couldn't finish the race because the heel piece of his binding tore out of his ski. The accident cost the team fifteen points and a place in the top ten. Harvard's 11th place finish jeopardizes the Crimson's status as a division one team for next season. Bowdoin, a division two team that finished ninth ahead of Harvard and Cornell, now can decide if it wants to become a division one team...
...jazz trumpet players who could be called, with no second thought, great: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy and Miles Davis. Satch played a sweet, raucous sound that kept its roots strong in the gumbo of hometown New Orleans. Dizzy knew how to nurse a tune too, but his armor-piercing solos tore those roots right up and replanted them farther north, in the new welter of urban angst. But his music, always intrepid, remained fleet. It was spontaneous reinvention in rhythm, a kind of fun that tweaked the far edges but never crossed them...
...MADE PORT. Loaded with nearly 24 million gal. of North Sea crude, struggling in heavy seas, the Greek-registered vessel foundered on rocks near the entrance to the Spanish port of La Coruna and began leaking from at least two of its nine tanks. As a series of explosions tore through the ship, sinking its bow and adding to the sludgy deluge, rescuers evacuated all of the 29-member crew by helicopter. The accident occurred at almost the exact spot along the northwest shore, nicknamed the "Coast of Death" for its toll on sea traffic over the years, where...
Beside Maher's about-face, sophomore for ward Tammy Butler provided strong rebounding during Harvard's run. In the first six minutes, she tore down eight boards, giving her 17 for the game...
Martins, who tore ligaments in the ankle during the first team scrimmage, was expected back sometime this month, but it now seems a January return is more likely...