Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqué, rip-roodled off to the radio shack and peremptorily ordered the operator, "in the name of the White House," to send it. The trusting operator complied. By the time the pooled message was sent, Smith and the U.P. had a clear beat of 40 minutes...
...loved rushed at her as much for vengeance as for grief, almost like wolves into the circle of a dying fire that had drawn them yet filled them with fear. In a fitful half-light of awareness, the characters of Brendan Gill's soft-moving, almost plotless novel rip tooth & nail at the memory of Elizabeth-at each other for possession of it, and finally each at himself in remorse for the dried smallness of his own loveless heart...
...last week unions were running with ladders, hooks, pruning shears and bushel baskets to get the pickings. In most cases just a little shaking of the tree did the work. All the big automakers raced to rip up their old contracts and raise wages. Some 750,000 of its members, said the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers last week, have fattened their pay envelopes by wage hikes of about 10? an hour...
...along by a suddenly rising tide. Bernard Baruch's espousal of immediate price controls (TIME, Aug. 7) had even persuaded many Republicans that Harry Truman ought to have not less but more control over the economy. But before the week was out, the tide had become a wild rip on which bounced all the old rinds and used coffee grounds of U.S. party politics...
...balloonist, with Captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson (now an Air Force major general), he took a balloon 60,613 feet into the stratosphere before a rip in the fabric sent the bag plummeting earthward. The three bailed out -Kepner at 500 feet. Then Bill Kepner moved on to airplanes. In World War II he wore a general's stars, but frequently left his desk to fly combat missions. He was chief of the hard-flying Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, a principal Allied weapon in the destruction of the German Luftwa...