Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, the biennial election of the League of Republican Women came close to hair-pulling when the Old Guard girls snatched away and tore up the sample ballots of the Eisenhower Republican faction . . . To Republican Dwight Eisenhower from Michigan Republican William Doerfner, a General Motors steering-gear executive, came an angry letter: "I will no longer support you, nor will I support the Republican Party, as long as it condones your proven unsound monetary politics and your New Deal-inspired international WPA . . ." In New Hampshire, the reactionary Republican Manchester Union Leader editorially called the President of the U.S. a "stinking...
...Marcos fiesta in Aguascalientes. From the start of his first fight he showed cool mastery, although his bull was a big, sly, unpredictable animal. But suddenly, as Velazquez was performing a high chest pass, the bull thrust his horns upwards, snagged Velazquez' left ear and tore it loose. Other matadors and handlers dashed into the ring, distracted the bull and dragged Velazquez away bleeding. But when doctors tried to patch the wound, Velazquez shook them off and went back into the ring, his ear dangling grotesquely. Not until he made a few more swift passes and dispatched the bull...
...Altars), was treating his subjects so sympathetically that sect-shopping Century readers were writing in to ask how they could get in touch. Managing Editor Theodore A. Gill, a staunch Presbyterian, grimly published all the articles-on Psychiana, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unity and Baha'i; then he tore off an editorial taking the sects apart...
Cushing coolly sailed up to the log barrier, examined it, then spun the wheel and headed across the river in order to get speed enough to drive the launch up over the logs. He came surging back in a hail of musket fire that tore off the sole of his left shoe and ripped out the back of his uniform. The boat breasted the logs and hung suspended, just 10 ft. from the muzzle of one of the ironclad's 8-in. guns. Carefully, Cushing lowered the torpedo into position and gently pulled the 25-ft. line that released...
Around End, No Gain. In Baltimore, Anthony Caminiti angrily tore his parking ticket into shreds, muttering, "If I've got to pay it, I guess I can do what I want with it." was promptly arrested for littering the streets...