Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatitude's Head. What the Turks fear is precisely what Greece threatens: to rip Cyprus from the troubled treaty that gives the 18% Turkish minority a veto over the majority Greek Cypriots and set it on the path toward enosis, or merger with Greece. No one is a blunter advocate of this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever...
BEAR WITH us. With that, work lights burst into brilliant glare, diesel compressors roar into life, air hammers rip into the pavement, and dust begins to rise. Comes the dawn. Trucks rumble up loaded with thick lengths of timber. Racing against the clock, the workmen literally pave the torn-up street with the square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward...
Frank Ripley, the Crimson's top player, plays a picture game, adding smooth ground strokes to a style that depends on a big serve and volley. At 6-3, Rip has the power to hit with anybody in the Eastern League, and he should have more than enough for Navy...
...card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...white creatures spit bullets in Mr. Charlie's small Southern town. Baldwin's battle of the races pits Lyle Britten (Rip Torn), a poor-white grocery-store keeper, against Richard Henry (Al Freeman Jr.), an ex-dope addict recently returned from New York and the son of the local Negro pastor. Both men are deformed spirits, the white envenomed by poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology...