Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proprietors tore their hair, hissed at their staffs that "formidable damage" had been done to the French tourist trade, that the higher wages the staffs had won in principle would bring bankruptcies galore...
...cotton, oil and cattle production, even the dimensions of its world's record grapefruit (26-in. circumference) and world's record watermelon (183 lb.). Another reason is Texans' fierce pride in their past, in the heritage of Austin, Travis, Houston and other heroes who tore away from Mexico, a century ago this year, the land which was to become more than one-twelfth...
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera seemed stunned for a moment, then suddenly let out a roar like a wounded bull. He took his cap and flung it straight over the head of the presiding judge at the figure of Justice on the wall, tore off his gown and stamped on it. "Bastards!" he screamed, "Bastards! Up Spain! There is no more justice in this country...
...with him in a restaurant, found the soup particularly good but slyly said to Moore: "Do you mean to say you are going to drink that?" Moore tasted it, called the waiter in high dudgeon, made a scene. Once he got in a row with some spinster neighbors who tore up a copy of one of his books, sent the pieces in a parcel to Moore, marked "Too filthy to keep in the house." Every night thereafter Moore would rattle his stick on their railing to make their dogs bark. He also stoned the spinsters' cat, because he said...
When Nashville, Tenn. women tore the dress suit off his back, Baritone Nels Eddy called for police, asked them to save him from his admirers, take him to train...