Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
...Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy. Loss, between damage and loot...
...Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko truculently renewed the Communist offensive against Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. In Geneva, when U.S., British and Russian delegates to the nuclear-test-ban conference met again after a 3½-month recess, the Soviet delegate started off with a belligerence that appeared to rip apart the fragile little structure of agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word that Khrushchev no longer cared about a summit meeting. And from behind the Iron Curtain drifted reports that Khrushchev was planning to use this week...
...Maury Maverick Jr., 40, son of the late rip-roaring New Deal Congressman, grandson of the rancher who let his cattle run unbranded (and thus made his name a world-known synonym for "stray"), has the support of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which means that he will probably get the maverick vote and little else. Warns Maverick: "If I don't get a lot of votes, we may not have another man willing to run this liberal in Texas for another ten years...
...year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ of the Congo." After one dance nine nuns lay naked on a floor all night, locked in with Congolese soldiers. Said one: "They did not rape...