Word: ripping
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...almost hysterical laughter: the acerb mocking tone one hears and the swinging London air one breathes in plays like Entertaining Mr. Sloane, A Severed Head, The Killing of Sister George, Eh?, and such Pinter one-acters as The Lover, A Slight Ache and The Collection. The latest comedy to rip the stuffing out of the stuffy is How's the World Treating You?, and it is desolatingly funny...
...Rip out those Reds! Destroy them root and branch...
Political fortunes sometimes take strange turns; in Georgia, an entire party fabric can rip to shreds in a matter or weeks...
...going into new areas, the company hopes to escape the cost-boosting wastes imbedded in most building codes, zoning and subdivision ordinances. It expects to gain a free hand for technical experiments by guaranteeing to rip out and replace anything that fails to work. By creating its own captive market, the company should be able to absorb the immense cost of technical innovation that inhibits many promising new building ideas. "We have been a supplier of products for houses," ex plains George T. Bogard, head of G.E.'s recently created Community Systems Development Division...
...ghettos and form cooperatives. If the police force refuses to promote one of the Negro police men to captain, then only invite the Negro police into the ghettos. If the draft tries to take the most vital element out of the ghettos to fight their racist wars, then go rip up the induction centers as we did in Georgia -- "we went in with 11 men last time and they were all arrested we're going back with 50 next time...