Word: rip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply ''B. S. A.'s." Smartest of medium-priced British sports cars today is the "M. G.," a rip-roaring little red bug made by sedate Morris Garages...
...well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma. A series of operations restored her sight, but her eyes have always troubled her. Born Annie Sullivan, the daughter of poor Irish immigrants in Massachusetts, she and her rip-roaring father never got along, and after her mother died she was put in the state poorhouse. Ambitious for schooling, she got herself placed in Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind. Shortly after her graduation she was offered the job of being nurse and governess to a little blind deaf...
...picnicking with my wife and 16-year-old son on Chatham Island. I observed a heavy wash coming down the Gulf [of Georgia] from the north. I thought at first it was just a tide rip. Then I was amazed to see huge coils come out of the top of the water like a snake. . . . The total length of these coils must have been at least 80 ft. and they were five feet thick, I should think. They came twisting out of the water so high that I could see light under them...
...scrimmage. Passes figured only slightly in the game for Coach Casey was determined to check up on his groundwork. Five aerials were attempted and none completed. A spectacular spinner play put in its appearance, or rather, attracted unusual attention by reason of its effectiveness, and Harvard managed to rip open the Wildcats' line for long gains on this bit of deception...
What they were all treated to was an oldfashioned, rip-snorting stump speech by an Old Guardsman whose battle-cry was: ''Back to the Constitution...