Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouse, Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...
...squatty lad with the Irish name looked no more like a prizefighter than any other Mexican in Southern California. He had a baby face, black curly hair, a noticeable lack of pugilistic rip & tear, an immense, nerveless calm. Last week, Nick Moran bounced into a Los Angeles ring to be butchered (the odds were 12-to-1 against him) by World's Lightweight Champion Bob Montgomery. Before the fight, reporters tried to elbow their way to his dressing room and were shushed away with: "He's like Napoleon ... he can sleep anytime, and he's sleeping...
Radio, like the rest of the nation, was not quite sure how to act. The networks had been on the mark for months with plans for rip-roaring V-E day celebrations...
...General inspires hot loyalty. No other U.S. Army in Europe has higher mo rale, higher unit pride. Third Army men do not call Patton "Old Blood & Guts" (that nickname came from such fervid advice to trainees as: "Rip their belly buttons; spill their guts around"). To his own men Patton is "The Old Man" or "The Big Guy"-and they say it respect fully...
Desolation and utter confusion were the reactions yesterday to Dean Hanford's announcement that the University intends to rip down old, oft-condemned Shepherd Hall, which has housed the Harvard Crimson Network, the Harvard Liberal Union, the Harvard-Radcliffe Post-War Council, the Freshman Red Books, and the Senior Albums...