Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McDanal snatched at the Klansmen's hoods, tore off several. One of them was Lollar, she said...
...turning him out into a world filled with the products of his night & day dreaming. In his black, beige and bronze bathroom, with its motif of Nubian slaves, he plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch-and-a-half cuffs on the sleeves, which could be replaced when frayed (a designer's fray quickly...
Denfeld's outburst startled a few people. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hurried from the room, speechless. General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tore up his prepared statement and started over again. The Army hastily summoned Chief of Staff General Joe Lawton Collins back from Japan to testify in rebuttal. This week, too, the Air Force would at last have...
...pulled the telegram from behind the beermug on the mantlepiece, and tore off the end of the yellow envelope. He pushed a shirt and a pair of dirty socks off the easy chair, then sat down to read...
...lawyers, several banks and a covey of real estate scouts, none of whom were told that they were all working for Lever or even the same company. Lever executives who masterminded the deals used 20 unlisted phones, talked in code words and numbers instead of names, and carefully tore up all scribbled notes of phone conversations...