Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiated with Nasser in September 1955 has cost Egypt dearly. What Egypt got was Czech arms-many of which were captured by the Israelis-plus such items as crude oil of such a high sulphur content that it damaged Egypt's refineries, and newsprint so coarse that it tore up Cairo's high-speed Western presses. In return. Nasser gave the Soviets a long-term mortgage on Egypt's cotton crop, the nation's No. 1 source of income. The Soviets started off by reselling Egypt's cotton on world markets at giveaway prices, thus...
...came down, the protruding back end of his skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed arteries...
...Burgess had quit as president and director of T.W.A. both Hughes and Burgess said that parting was "friendly," and Hughes praised Burgess for his "great engergy, dedication and devotion to T.W.A." But the two could not agree on how to run the airline and on future policy, and Burgess tore up his three-year contract...
Director Brooks decided to be firm. "Maria, you have to lose weight." "Why?" "Because"-he took a deep breath-"you are not sexually attractive." That tore it. Says Brooks: "The walls shook. My teeth rattled. What a tigress." She concluded coldly: "In Europe, people look at my face, not at my body." But she pared away 15 Ibs. in about two weeks...
...certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire probing each man's attitude toward the others. On unanimous demand, the camp doctor tore up the questions...