Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROOF (Showtime). Jessica Lange was a sizzling Maggie and Rip Torn an offbeat Big Daddy in this lively and well-directed (by Jack Hofsiss) classic. TV's finest posthumous tribute to Tennessee Williams...
...silver revolver out of the waistband of his jeans and fired a well-aimed bullet into each of his harassers as other passengers dived screaming to the floor. The gunman then helped two terrified women to their feet and calmly told a conductor that the youths "tried to rip me off." He stepped through the rear door of the car, jumped onto the tracks and disappeared into the gloom of the subway tunnel. His victims, all ages 18 or 19, were rushed to hospitals; three appeared to be recovering, but Darryl Cabey was paralyzed from the waist down...
...undercover scheme had an apt name: Operation Rip-stop. Federal agents and the Naval Investigative Service last week issued 65 arrest warrants for Marines and civilians who had ripped off an estimated $500,000 worth of military supplies from Camp Pendleton, near San Diego. Authorities estimate that theft of military equipment costs the Government $200 million a year...
...well taken. The trend, over a number of years, to include more open questions and decrease the number of "rate the reading teacher labs from 1 to 7" represents an attempt to frame statistics in their proper context. To simply include more statistics, as Dowling suggests, would rip ratings from their mornings...
...gasp changing to a sigh, such as Doug Flutie brought to college football last week. The most cuddly player in history, or at least since Eddie LeBaron, appears about to run away with the Heisman trophy. Mindful that there have been stirring football finishes for 100 years, and rip-roaring games the equal of Boston College's 47-45 victory over Miami, it can be fairly stated that never have a forward pass and a statue's unveiling been more favorably timed...