Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seconds for Cash. Jimmy Bryan had an edge in both. His pit crew never kept him off the track more than 35 seconds at a stop. He drifted into curves and tore down the straightaways with the same swift talent that had won him the national driving championship three years in the last four. He fought the wheel with the husky skill that helped him last through the 1954 race after his shock absorbers and springs collapsed, and his whole body was bruised and bleeding from pounding of the bricks...
...White House until 9:45 one morning, he walked down the South Lawn to a quivering olive-drab giant, Army H34 Helicopter No. 64316, that needed only 34 minutes to set him down 80 miles away beside his home-town polling booth in Barlow Fire Hall, near Gettysburg. He tore the identifying #35 off the corner of his Pennsylvania primary ballot and boarded his bird again, whisking off to Harrisburg...
Profit in His Own Land. In midweek Van moved to Philadelphia and the same kind of reception. After his concert at the Academy of Music, he escaped through a shrieking crowd that tore the handles from the doors of his limousine. In Washington, before his concert at Constitution Hall, he went to the White House with his parents and Conductor Kondrashin. President Eisenhower gave him a preperformance pep talk: "After that kind of ordeal over there, you will be all right." Cliburn hit Constitution Hall like a landslide, stayed for lunch in the Senate Dining Room with the congressional delegation...
...third day, a piece of legal paper went up the rope in the basket. It authorized the temporary reopening of his door if Righetti would agree to find new quarters within four months. The imprisoned pastor of Fondi agreed, and the masons hurriedly tore open the bricked-up door to set him free...
Next time around, Cuba's Armando Garcia Cifuentes, 27, met trouble headon. His bright yellow-and-black Ferrari skidded out of a shallow turn and tore into the crowd. It spewed up at least 40 casualties, including seven dead. In its wake lay empty shoes; spectators had been knocked right out of them. Said Porsche Driver Ulf Noriden, who stopped his car and ran back to help: "I couldn't even see the Ferrari. The bodies were piled all over. I was wading in arms and legs." Panicky survivors swarmed across the Malecón, careless...