Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because publishing a magazine was a new experience for this office, we underestimated the manpower needed for binding, wrapping, delivery. So the entire staff, its friends, the executives of our lithographing company and their wives were all busy wrapping magazines. I tore out the rear seat of the staff car and personally trucked sixty 80-pound mail bags to the post office to meet the deadline...
...first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
Germans Backward. On the retreat to Messina there was no rest for the Germans. The big guns of U.S. warships tore into them on the north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...
...bomber and then realized a Zero had tagged on to him. He headed out to sea to get clear and flip around and meet the Jap head on. "Imagine my surprise when there were nine Zeros instead of one. But it was too late for anything else, so I tore right into them." Bong...
Twelve days had passed since British bombers tore the German night, ten since U.S. bombers flew in sunlight to Le Bourget (see cols, 1 & 2). Bad weather, the one defense which works against an air offensive, had given both the Germans and the Allied bombing fleets a valuable respite...