Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with thin pieces of paper and after several would-be callers have dropped in their coins, retrieve the money. Last year one thief admitted that he habitually got into 20 to 30 pay phones a day and earned $20,000 annually. Less sophisticated professionals often smash the telephones or rip them out and carry them away. Plain spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires or steal receivers and dials just for perverse fun or an adolescent sign of protest. Some psychologists see similarities between the wrecking of telephones and the destruction...
Without pausing to change sticks, Mi-kita continued playing and to his sur prise found that he could rip off a shot faster and harder with his crooked cud gel. Soon he and Teammate Bobby Hull were warping the wooden blades of their sticks into scooplike curves by soaking them in hot water and wedging them under door jambs overnight...
...stay on for the immediate future. During the campaign, Nixon had talked of a "complete housecleaning" at the State Department, but, more recently, he said that he had "the greatest respect for the career State Department people." One associate described Nixon's mood: "He doesn't want to rip out and tear up. He wants it slow, orderly, methodical, measured...
...still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe, now 30. Presumably the $20,000 in extra pay will provide some consolation for the fact that Rowe will never know what it is like to wear the double bars of a U.S. Army captain...
...written Oliver Twist to rip the brocade from Puritan England and reveal the human misery beneath. To those who found his melodrama too coarse, Dickens replied: "Criminal characters, to suit them, must be, like their meat, in delicate disguise ... It is wonderful," he continued, "how Virtue turns from dirty stockings; and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance...