Word: rip
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...America, subway bombs have been around longer than parking meters. Back when terrorists were called "radicals," in 1927, two explosions blasted through two midtown New York City stations late one August night, injuring 12. The bombs went off 10 minutes apart; one was strong enough to rip open the sidewalk on the street above. The city lunged into action. All 14,000 police officers were put on bomb duty to protect the city's water supply and public buildings, reported a New YorkTimes article from the time. Scores of New Yorkers carrying bundles were stopped and searched...
...make All-Hospitality Room this year." As mussed and professorial as Paterno looks, that's how slick and worldly Switzer appears. His teams are frequently referred to as "loose," a code word for undisciplined. Paterno has accomplished one of the rarest feats in sports: replacing a legendary coach, Rip Engle (whom he served as an assistant for 16 years), and becoming a larger legend. Switzer, after 13 head-coaching seasons, has not begun to displace Bud Wilkinson in the mind's image of an Oklahoma coach. Yet for 154 games, Switzer's and Wilkinson's charts--126 victories, 24 losses...
...open Wynn Macau in China next year, has bid for a gaming license in Singapore, is investigating a London property and in 2008 will finish Encore, a $1.4 billion, all-suites hotel on 8 hectares adjacent to the Wynn. Within a decade, the company intends to rip up Wynn Las Vegas' brand-new, Tom Fazio-designed golf course to build housing developments and entertainment facilities...
...launched fizzles, he starts refusing water. That becomes a battle of wills--and teeth. Al-Qahtani quickly becomes so dehydrated that medical corpsmen forcibly administer fluids by IV drip. He tries to fight them off with his hands and is restrained. Another time, al-Qahtani tries to rip the IV needle out; when he is cuffed to his chair, he turns his head and bites the IV line completely in two. He is then strapped down and given an undisclosed amount of fluids. An hour or so later, around 9:40 a.m., al-Qahtani tells his guards that he would...
JOHN SZTYKIEL The last time I drove a coach like this in a big city, I made a turn too tight and took out one of the light towers and put a nice 12-in. rip in the side wall...