Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn's Carol Kuna continued her tournament-long scoring tear putting in a game-high 28 points to keep the Quakers in the game. A strong Harvard comeback late in the first half gave the Crimson a 35-30 halftime lead after Penn had dominated the early going...
...cadence of the prose in Olive and Mary Anne is reminiscent of boots on pavement. The themes are not much subtler: an heiress slides into boozy decay; a proletarian poet recollects his childhood in an orphanage and his sexual initiation; a Communist seeks to tear down institutions-and dreams of dominating women. It scarcely matters what time is assigned to these stories; the author's clock has stopped in the '30s, when naturalism reigned and bourgeois society was the ordure of the day. The revolutionaries of that epoch now resemble entries on some tarnished armed services memorial: Edward...
...then there are those supremely intellectual, upper-class readers of TIME who have been known to tear themselves away from Forbes or I, Claudius and, cunningly disguised in blue collars, sneak off to see,Smokey and the Bandit-twice...
...home and then to La Prensa's office. The angry marchers moved on to burn a Somoza-owned textile mill and a commercial blood bank that Chamorro had exposed for selling Nicaraguan blood abroad at a lucrative profit. Some stoned a police station; the cops responded by lobbing tear gas into La Prensa's building. The crowds shouted "Death to Somoza!" and "Down with Yankee imperialism!" Among a score of buildings set afire was an American bank. To forestall further rioting, the government pressured Chamorro's family to bury him ahead of schedule...
...really sweating," says the father, sensing the kill. Lizie scowls. "How do you know it's a he?" But now the sweating is over,and the checkmated computer weeps a bright red tear: "I lose." "Right, it's a he," says Lizie...