Word: rend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot is reasonably easy to follow if you bring along a bloodhound and a pocket dictionary of Arab names, which rend the desert air and are damn hard to keep track...
...supposed to be inheriting a bankrupt franchise on the Charles, where prestige was non-existent and morale appallingly low. The experts set up a sympathetic wailing for the innocent victim who was walking into a hornets' nest of powerful Ivy League squads that would decimate his team and rend his players limb from limb...
...gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
...Boston's annual 3500 crop of stray dogs, is that the brethren of the medical profession are all natural sadists who derive orgiastic joy from the sufferings of mute beasts. A plethora of theological arguments are also adduced to show that what God hath made, no mere man should rend asunder...
...RendÓn's first formidable program included twelve points. Since then he has added 125 more. Some of them: 1) congressional candidates must be able to produce certificates of grade-school attendance; 2) the Mexican constitution should be rewritten in verse and set to music; 3) anemic Mexican Indians shall be painted a healthy red to please the tourists; 4) the money stolen by labor-union leaders shall be used to buy coffins for the poor; 5) so that all may be equal in death, Mexicans shall be buried under a standard-model tombstone...