Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid, Viereck's way of emphasizing this--but does not bother to explain why one system was accepted and the other fought. Instead by means of some dialogues with a ludicrous stereotype named Gaylord Babbitt, Viereck creates a phony example of a deluded intellectual, and proceeds to rip into his artistic, economic, and political beliefs...
...have read Furry's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and before Boston reporters. Each time, when questioned about communists, their activities and political purposes, Furry has acted like a Rip Van Winkle, who has been mentally asleep for the past decade and a half. Asked about his activities with a front group in 1948, Furry kept talking about Loyalist Spain. To the Congressmen, he insisted that American propaganda was distorting Soviet actions and he accused this government of persecuting communists for their political beliefs...
...Dubbeldam, a handful of sober, weary Dutchmen paused for a moment to stand bareheaded before a row of four rough wooden coffins, but there was little time for mourning. The very next night new gales whipped the swollen tides down the wind tunnel of the North Sea to rip new holes in weakened Dutch dikes and add still more victims to the 1,372 already dead in the floods...
...Though there was no real reason why Dallas air passengers could not use the new, safer Fort Worth facilities, few permitted themselves even a second of such treasonable thought. Dallas, its citizenry decided, must have a big airport too. The solution seemed simple: all they had to do was rip down houses in which hundreds of families live at present, subject other residential areas to the constant snarling of aircraft, and spend about $15 million. Love Field would then be comparable to Fort Worth's. Closer to town too. Last week Dallas citizens voted approval of a $12.5 million...
...room of his Gorinka estate, about 25 miles outside of Moscow, hangs a pink marble plaque which reads: "Emperor Alexander I, the Blessed Czar of all the Russias, danced in this room after having defeated the armies of Bonaparte in the Patriotic War." When his second wife tried to rip it down, Stalin said: "I'm a Georgian, so I must show great respect for all the relics of Russian history." One Bolshevik relic, the embalmed body of Lenin, is now a fake, says Budu. When the real body began to deteriorate rapidly at the beginning of World...