Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terrific blasts just ripped those big guns apart, tore bodies into a thousand pieces. Tanks on our flanks just took off across the fields...
...done in London last week. It streaked down during the noonday rush on a shop-lined street. Its 2,240 lbs. of TNT blew apart a crowded restaurant, filled the air with knife-edged shards of splintered glass. The blast wrenched off the top deck of a bus, tore apart another bus. Passengers were dazed, their clothing afire...
...Hitler had been present, and when the grenade-or was it a Teller mine?-exploded under the table, the explosion tore the pants off everyone present. When Benito Mussolini arrived a short time later, Hitler held up the ragged remnants to show that nothing worse had happened to him. Hitler was verging on a nervous breakdown, terrified of further attempts on his life, had -deserted Berchtesgaden for a heavily guarded Rhineland estate...
...President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around the circle. As he passed, each soldier turned his back. At the end, he embraced his daughter...
...seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then...