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Word: shred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anti-personnel bombs flutter to earth and land silently in darkened rice fields. There they wait sinisterly, like chunks of debris. They explode only at human contact, spewing out hundreds of tiny steel pellets which rip, shred, maim and blind. Anti-personnel bombs do not discriminate between soldiers and old women and small boys walking behind the family water buffalo...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...Poseidon submarine carries 16 missiles. Each missile carries ten separate warheads; each warhead has about twice the destructive capability of the atomic weapon which destroyed Hiroshima. So one American submarine can destroy 160 Soviet cities, a threat which is surely sufficient to deter a Soviet leader with any shred of rationality...

Author: By Jospeh Kruzel, | Title: Is Nuclear Strategy M.A.D.? | 2/6/1974 | See Source »

...Philadelphia's Cloverlay Gym in his Smokin' Joe T shirt, he seems to be in constant motion. Inside the ring he dodges imaginary blows; he launches lefts and rights at the air, then spars for four hard rounds. Next Frazier pounds the bags as if hoping to shred them. The workout ends with 20 sit-ups and a beating around the gut with the medicine ball that brings a roar from the mixed crowd of fighters, trainers and well-dressed onlookers who drop in for the free show. Before they can press round Frazier, he is whisked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Picking Foreman's Foe | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

COLGATE-PRINCETON--Hahahahahahahahahahaha. This Tiger team would even make a Patriots fan laugh. Colgate's Tom Parr will shred the Tiger defense. Colgate 35, Princeton...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

...style is offhand. California hip rather than Gotham sophisticate, and four-letter words stud her rap. She avoids high-fashion designer clothes, prefers casual wear such as blue jeans, pants and sweater outfits, often teamed with a crazy hat and tennis shoes. She does not own a shred of underwear -just a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Making Magic with a Funny Face | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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