Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable Northern support. Said Illinois' combative Senator Paul Douglas last week: "We must take a stand on civil rights. If the Southerners walk out, it will...
...Brazil, finally gratifying his long-felt urge to fly, ex-Aircraft Mechanic Olimpio Martines Neto, 27, hopped in a twin-engine DC-3 at the city airport, kept it aloft for three minutes, crash-landed in a crowded suburb, walked from the wreck with nothing more serious than a rip in the seat of his pants...
Your verbal picture [TIME, March 12] of Leonard Hall's Alpha-plus Republicans grinding out their slogans portends the party's approach to the masses come the presidential season: Rip off the top of a Democrat and mail it to Hall for Your Handy Republican Speech Kit and, for promptness, a dozen Hardly Used Campaign Cliches...
...spikes can rip across the wet soil and oars can slash the choppy waves. At last muscles can hurt after an afternoon of rugby and lungs can ache after hours of lacrosse. The discus and the javelin slice through somehow cleaner air and the ping of the tennis court seems a truer sound as the air turns warmer...
...piano-and a real professional sheen on two others-drums and bones. At almost everything his timing and coordination were exceptional-though, curiously he could never learn to dance very well-and they showed to brilliant effect whenever he was on a stage. In the sixth grade he played Rip Van Winkle in the school play, and made a hit with all the mothers. He decided he might like to be an actor, if only fate would preserve him from the fertilizer business...