Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such well-paced growth, building on the vast base provided by the U.S. economy, was enough to tear the record books to shreds. Industrial production, the measure of what U.S. business produces, rose 7% to reach a new high. After several years of a profit squeeze that discouraged new ventures and encouraged old complaints, business reaped an unprecedented harvest of $51 billion in pretax profit. Detroit's automakers, strained almost beyond their willing capacity for optimism, not only ran up the best year in their history, but witnessed the beginning of another that held promise of destroying tradition...
Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis could have been received either as a magnificent catharsis or as an offensive, over-extended tear-jerker. The audience chose the cathartic interpretation, even though the members of the string orchestra did not end their chords together, did not play their pizzicati together, and did not all tune to the standard of pitch habitual in civilized countries...
...colleague of G.O.P. strategy: "It's senseless for us to try to hold back on this thing now when we know we're going to have to go along with whatever it takes to get it out in the end. That's the bill that will tear the Democratic Party apart. I say bring it out and let 'em start fighting over it." In any event, with his sometime Republican allies now pressuring him, Smith finally agreed to start hearings on the civil rights bill "reasonably soon in January...
...closing down of Rangoon university last week, the students, led by leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses failed because of insufficient water pressure. Finally, tough riot police with tear gas dislodged the students. Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government...
...major agonies of having one, has been made all but automatic by the Pet Milk Co., which has produced a pre-sterilized can of formula equipped with a sterilized nipple wrapped in plastic. At feeding time nothing more is needed than to peel off the nipple, open the can, tear off the plastic, replace the nipple, and begin feeding the baby one of a choice of four formulas at room temperature. Afterward, the whole unit is thrown away. Price: six 4-oz. or four 8-oz. cans for $1.29. Trial distribution began last week in Atlanta, Dallas and Fort Worth...