Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old building was doomed. Smoke billowed through corridors, and flames (which had started in a defective flue) were rolling up the old-fashioned stair well in the center of the building. As men jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows, others tried to climb down the ivy that covered the stone outside. Still others never got out at all. When dawn came, there was nothing left...
Going into the final event, three teams--Winthrop, Dunster, and Kirkland--were tied at 13 points apiece. In the deciding bout, heavyweights Glenn Schultz of Dunster and Jim McNear of Winthrop tore at each other furiously, slugging and pushing each other all over the ring for two rounds before McNear finally out-classed Schultz to take the match that gave the Puritans the title...
...Brakes. The Europeans, unused to downhill curves and accustomed to picking up speed on straightaways, were at a disadvantage at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Nonetheless, a Swiss sled, driven by 28-year-old Felix Endrich (winner at last winter's Olympics), tore off with the world's two-man title. Average time for the 5,181-ft. course...
Lingerie on the Hedge. That twister (one of the worst in Holland's history) tore the roof off every house in Borculo on Aug. 10, 1925. The people of Borculo never forgot how their town's church bells turned up in somebody's bedroom, and how a housewife's lingerie, just unpacked, was found draped on hedges and window frames all over town...
...never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb. bomb was second largest ever dug up in London. Seven years ago during a bad raid its fuse had jammed as it tore through Mrs. Alfred Fry's kitchen, then buried itself 30 feet in the Stepney ground. At that time air-raid wardens laid the damage to an antiaircraft shell. Recently Mrs. Fry noticed that the ground around her repaired kitchen had been sinking. That gave the bomb disposal experts...