Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of former guerrillas tore down a steel tube scaffolding. They broke it up, then distributed the bars to demonstrators, who brandished them defiantly. The paraders were excited by their leaders, who made angry speeches against the government and the "murderer," Jules Moch, Socialist Minister of the Interior and head of the police. Among those who listened were many women. One wore a bulky fur coat. Most shivered as the raw mist bit through their worn clothes...
Mauran broke the back of any concerted Eli opposition on the first play of the second half when behind good blocking, he spun and tore his way through the whole Yale team 80 yards for a touchdown. Rosenau added the point and made...
Almost 500 Yale and Harvard supporters literally tore apart Jim Cronin's as the closing hour of midnight drew near last night. Waitresses were still shoveling broken glass early this morning, and Jim himself was thumbing the phonebooks looking for carpenters...
Then there was the injury list, a season long problem to Mr. Hickman and one of the reasons why he will coach the underdog today. Ferd Nadherny, who tore the Harvard line to shreds in 1946 and 1947, has been out most of the season; guard Vic Frank has had half a dozen minor injuries; all the centers have been injured and even today only one, Captain Bill Conway, is in top shape...
...wheels and circled down for a landing. The heavy plane hit the rutted field in a cloud of dust, bounced a hundred yards, settled again and ground to a stop at the very end of the runway. Twenty minutes later two shells screamed in from the south and tore into the ground across the runway, abeam of the plane...