Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlike many of its sister Southern states, Alabama suffered few ravages from Union troops; indeed, the most notable battle came on the water, with Farragut's damn-the-torpedoes victory in Mobile Bay. What the war did do was rip the foundations from beneath Alabama's cotton-based economy. And what the Civil War did not finish, the boll weevil...
...many leaving for the suburbs. The union estimates that 13,500 more regular teachers are needed. Last fall the New York State education department issued a 710-page report that complimented the city school system for having "moved mountains," and then proceeded on almost every page to rip it apart with criticisms of "heavy teaching loads, meager instructional materials, and limited or inept supervision...
...high speeds, the cigar-shaped body was designed so that the terrific air pressure on the nose would hold it down ("negative lift," engineers call it). A small fin under the nose helped carve a path through the "air wake"-so strong at high speeds that it might otherwise rip the car apart...
...Sweep Up Your Missus." She was never "an appendage, this green-eyed one," admitted Shaw. She dragged him, coldly protesting, on endless travels to far-off places, where he was invariably miserable. When they had been married a dozen years, G.B.S. had a rip-roaring affair-on paper, at least-with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, making scant attempt to hide his infatuation from Charlotte's "sensitive person." (For once, he spared his wife the embarrassment of handling his love letters...
...twice-married divorcee with a strong but as yet impermanent connection with Actor Rip Torn, who played her lover in Strange Interlude. She lives in a Greenwich Village apartment and works all week long at the Studio, taking on a heavy schedule of classwork on top of the 27 hours a week she spends onstage...