Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muscle disorder, O'Neill made an agonizing decision: he would destroy the cycle's six unfinished plays so that no writer could draw conclusions from his beginnings. One manuscript was spared-A Touch of the Poet, which O'Neill thought was ready for the stage. "We tore them up, bit by bit," his wife later recalled. "He could tear just a few sheets at a time. It was like tearing up children...
...rocks for the Secretary), and there the Middle East would dominate the conversation. One day Dulles got out his yellow scratchpad and pencil and wrote out a draft of what he called "A United States Declaration on the Middle East." But his thoughts had not jelled, and he tore up the declaration without having it typed...
...Fenton had meanwhile buried the jewels beneath a palm tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that two bodies had been washed...
...Soft! What Truck ... In Madison, Wis., arrested for leaving the scene of an accident after his truck tore off a 3½-ton marquee and smashed an eight-foot window at the Cardinal Hotel, Henry D. Eskridge alibied: "Honest to gosh, I didn't know I hit anything...
Next day Lazlo Szabo joined demonstrations which tore down the Soviet monuments, cut the Red stars out of the flags, and freed political prisoners in the Vac prison...