Word: ripping
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...nuance would be wasted on Winthrop. The house cronies want rip-roaring entertainment, and they get it. All other distractions pale by comparison to the audience, who aren't watching the play so much as watching their friends act. Winthrop Drama Society's Burn This is well-acted, amusing, and interesting. But you will need all your powers of concentration to keep your mind off the audience's play-without-a-play...
...RIP for now--but wait until 1992 Rookie of the Year Rick Hielscher's senior season. Someday, Carill and his troops will return...
...called "dole" was actually military aid by the U.S. and USSR designed to rip the country apart in bloody civil war. But this is conveniently forgotten, as it is inconsistent with our picture of dependent Third Worlders...
Investigators are now zeroing in on the state monopolies for highway construction, petrochemicals, television broadcasting, public transit, water and electricity, where large budgets are tempting targets for graft. Though no one has precise numbers, one study puts the rip-off at $11 billion a year over the past dozen years, a figure coincidentally comparable to Italy's annual public deficit...
...turned loose, the spy service could eventually pay its own way by reducing rip-offs abroad. Trade-secret theft cost U.S. companies more than $100 billion in lost revenues last year. If left unchecked, analysts estimate, the losses could grow an additional 50% by the year...