Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intestinal parasites, and over 60% have rotting teeth. Not one house in ten in Wolfe County is sound; up to 30% of mountain folk are functionally illiterate and condemned to idleness because their meager skills as coal miners have been obviated by the huge strip-mining machines that rip apart Kentucky's hillside seams. Federal aid to Appalachia, totaling $450 million since 1965, has done little to alleviate their plight. Industries that could bring work have shunned their ravaged landscape...
...evenly divided between their supporters, a deadly stalemate persisted while problems mounted. The impasse ended only when both men turned operational control over to Rozet, a onetime production-line engineer for Douglas Aircraft who was then financial vice president of Sunasco. Rozet decided that the only solution was to rip the combine apart again...
...rule of the polemicist: never play fair. He has omitted a single, solitary act of mercy or justice on the part of his colonial administrators. Even stage villains are not that consistent. The cast, however, infuses the evening with its own humanity. The unmasked joy with which they finally rip the bogey asunder is obviously not confined to a gesture of liberation in a Portuguese colony...
Visconti has tackled his responsibility with the same fanatical concern for factual accuracy that Richard Brooks demonstrated in making In Cold Blood (TIME, Dec. 22). He had authorities in Algiers rip up a street to lay down trolley tracks that had been there during the period of the story (1938-39), and even ordered a reprinting of cigarette packages to match those sold at the time. Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness...
...Canal 65 miles southwest of Saigon was suddenly hit by intense fire. It carried a battalion of Vietnamese Marines and a battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry, part of a probing arm of Operation Coronado 9. The Vietnamese troops were in the lead boats, and when rockets began to rip through the flotilla's armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting for artillery and air support. Seconds later, Nha's troop carriers rammed into...