Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tore houses apart, roared through a big lumber mill, knocked down a high smokestack, ripped bricks from a new power plant and sent chunks of concrete, heavy beams, sheets of corrugated iron and great showers of boards flying through the air for hundreds of yards...
...messenger said he had an important letter to deliver by hand. He was ushered into the little white parish house beside Buenos Aires' church of Corpus Domini. In the pastor's study, tall, ruddy-faced Jose Maria Dunphy, 42, tore open the handsomely embossed envelope. The letter, signed by a secretary of Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, was curt and final. Father Dunphy was relieved of his parish duties, effective at once. "May God help you," the last line read...
...rains, fought back for one cold night, and then slipped down the drains. For once, the Almighty had come to the rescue of James M. Curley, and had taken away what He had put there. But stranger things were in store: the thermometers climbed to the fifties, resort owners tore their hair, and each succeeding day brought a strange bright glare to the usually gray skies...
Injuries will keep the two regular guards on the freshman basketball squad, Bill Borah and Alden Davis, out of the Holy Cross game in the Boston Arena at 4:30 p.m. today. Davis tore a cartilage in his knee at the Trinity game December 16 and aggravated the injury during the vacation. Borah twisted an ankle at practice yesterday and will be able to play only a small portion of the game at best, according to doctors...
King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...