Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, Me., nabbed for disorderly conduct, Genevieve Lynch, 24, was being ushered into a cell when she tore the badge off the arresting patrolman, grabbed his tie and tried to choke him when he went after it, bit the leg of a second cop rushing in for the rescue, dug her teeth into the hand of a lieutenant who hoped to rescue his two casualties, was finally subdued and put in a cell by a fourth policeman who hurriedly slammed the cell door shut-square on his left hand...
...manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking and small talk, William Fife Knowland, his wife, his aides and his escort of 8 newsmen got back into their cars and tore off down the road. Behind them, Mrs. Cadwallader held a bewildered head in her hands...
...tons of titanium mill products by 1957 (an amount that will not be needed for years), the Government encouraged five companies to start making the metal. Shoved along too fast, the untried metal soon developed many bugs. The first unalloyed titanium proved too brittle in aircraft; it tore easily, and fatigued at temperatures above 900°F. One 200,000-lb. batch was thrown out because it was-too hard to machine. Titanium parts in engines failed in flight...
...from Canada to Le Havre, drifted into West Germany, got netted at Oebisfelde by East German border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back to West German cops, Davis responded with lectures on world citizenship when asked for proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed by the nonsense, the lawmen in advertently let Davis flit free long enough to hold a press conference ("German...
...critics unanimously panned him because "I was not ferocious enough, and I did not rave and rant." Realizing this was his first critical and commercial flop in 13 years, he decided toward the end of the play's brief run to act the role as the critics wanted. He "tore through the performance like a madman, and hammed the part within an inch of burlesque," as any adolescent could have easily done. The result was that the audience loved it. "But the performance was no good," Huston said. "My subdued conception...is far superior to giving the role the works...