Word: rip
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even break McGwire?s record. As Ed watched SportsCenter and I sat nearby reading, Bonds? season in homeruns played across the screen. "Will you look at that," Ed murmured in wonder. "That?s something else." I glanced up, distracted by the swelling, Roy Hobbs-esque music, and saw Bonds rip another homer...
...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
...glamorous politician's wife?until she went public with her own tale of victimhood. And so, Durrani and Fakhra became a team: privileged protector and wounded ward, trying to repair some of the damage done to Fakhra's life. They have also become twin avengers determined to rip the veil from the cruelty and hypocrisy present in the upper echelons of Pakistani society. This is their story...
...Khar, Fakhra's husband, and, at age 36, the younger Khar still refers to her as "Mummy." Durrani detailed her life with the Khars in a 1991 autobiography called My Feudal Lord, and it is a hair-raising tale. The elder Khar beat Durrani, kidnapped their children, had a rip-roaring affair with her youngest sister and once forced Durrani to strip naked when she disobeyed his orders. Domestic abuse is routinely swept under the carpet in Pakistan; Durrani's book put it in the headlines both domestically and abroad. My Feudal Lord has been translated into 36 languages...
...store's shutters. Gul and Yusuf shout back that they aren't militants. Yusuf says he is going to do as the soldiers ask so they can see the innocent group. Nadiya, frightened, hides behind his legs. Yusuf flings open the shutters. As the light hits his face, bullets rip into his chest and stomach. He falls onto Gul. Nadiya doubles over, gasping. "I saw blood on her face," Gul recalls later. He moves out from under Yusuf; Nadiya is on the floor?some of the shots have passed clean through Yusuf. "The bullets had made a sieve...