Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anyhow, note followed hot note and Miss Jomes began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived as usual, but when Miss Jomes turned to the slot she found it sewn-up. Frantic, she tried to rip it open. No luck. She could feel something thin inside, but she couldn't get to it. And that's how it's been ever since...
...finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades of being out of the world. In The Called...
What was immediate and sure was the beeper's psychological impact. In many quarters U.S. discomfiture was greeted with open glee. RUSSIANS RIP AMERICAN FACE, headlined Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less...
...self-contained. In his middle-sized home town of Brocton (possibly located in Pennsylvania), he belongs to a comfortable upper class that has the attitudes if not the acreage of landed gentry. Within a 49-hour period, fissures of revelation about Winner's closest friends-and about himself-rip open this safe and stolid world, and almost swallow...
...instead warped the farm economy, e.g., Northwest farmers, restricted on wheat acreage, grow barley instead, and are now starting a cattle-feeding program to use the barley. "The hell of it is," said one of them, "all it would take is an administrative ruling right now to rip up the whole program...