Word: ripping
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...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...
...fencing against Crimson fencer David T. Schwartz '59 when the accident occured. Roy lunged and Schwartz's blade entered a rip in his sleeve, the point striking him under the arm. The match was immediately stopped for examination of the wound. The injury appeared to be minor and it seemed that Roy was suffering primarily from shock, and he was helped to walk out of the room...
...deeply demanding music, sang with power and beauty of tone that gave her audience chills. "They say it is hard," she said. "I think Bach is harder because I have to hold myself down, and that takes control. In Medea, I just open my big mouth and let it rip...
...Cadillacs nuzzled each other along the gaudy length of Collins Avenue. Women in sun-top dresses stretched beside swimming pools, contemplating headlines that happily proclaimed: ARCTIC BLASTS RIP COUNTRY. Flamboyant young New Yorkers leafed through stock-market reports...