Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connie Burwell (who studied at the University of Heidelberg after she finished at Sweet Briar) was inside Germany all during the feverish war preparations of 1937-1938-saw Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Goebbels many times-made notes of everything she saw and heard, tore them into strips, smuggled them out of. Germany in her shoes under the noses of the Gestapo...
...before, shock-haired Novelist Louis Bromneld, owner of a 1,100-acre Ohio farm, had become so incensed before the dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
...commander of marines] went to the table, looked at a piece of paper a sailor had left there, read it, tore it up and asked in a grim voice...
Visibility was zero. On his first pass the pilot missed the field; he circled for another try. Staff Sergeant George A. Eisel, in the tail turret, caught a blurry glimpse of the ground. Then, with a rending crash, the plane tore itself to wreckage against a low hillside. Eisel was hurled from his seat, forward among the dead. Flames licked close enough to singe his eyelashes before drenching rain put the fire out; 26 hours later he was able to tell rescuers what had happened...
...Financier Eugene Meyer upped and bought the moribund Washington Post for $825,000 and became a newspaperman himself. Mrs. Meyer, printer's ink in her blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...