Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of the 113th day, after a 25-hour nonstop conference, the General Motors strike was settled. When news of the settlement reached the pickets at the Cadillac motor plant, some of them wept. In Detroit, some pickets shouted, tore up their placards and threw them to the March winds; Chevrolet Local 235 ordered its men to keep marching until ratification of the agreement by the rank & file was final...
Then Truckline's producers, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan, tore into the critics. In an angry New York Times ad they announced they would close Truckline this week, but not "without saying a few things that are on our minds." Sample...
...Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...
...Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...
...Simeon faced the age-old dilemma of the religious ascetic: how to gain spiritual strength by withdrawing from mankind and at the same time to minister to man's spiritual needs. Simeon's overardent followers tore at his clothes for souvenirs, played hob with his devotions by their importunate chatter. He escaped by mounting a pillar. Fellow monks fashioned for him a small but sturdy limestone column, then gradually increased the height...