Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samaritans. In Spokane, after he tore ligaments in his ankle and fainted, George M. Blakely revived when a bystander shoved his head between his legs, fainted again when a second bystander wrapped his head in a cold towel, revived and fainted twice more as the alternate treatments were repeated, revived a fourth time and was hospitalized...
...Langlie tore up the statement, issued a new one, jumped into his greatest campaign with both feet. The first move: organization of a buttonholing, doorbell-punching Langlie-for-Senate committee in each of Washington's 39 counties. Last week these volunteers got the promise of valuable campaign assistance. In San Francisco, Eisenhower told Langlie that he intended to swing through Washington and Oregon before November...
TIME'S Aug. 6 story on the Andrea Doria disaster left me transfixed. The facts were the same as those handled by other publica tions, but the story emerged alive and tender, in a way that tore right into...
...rocket was plainly no 'toy. Jimmy, a quiet, confident boy, is in the top eight of his class at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., holds one of the school's major scholarships. When Army experts tore down Jimmy's rocket−planned to be fired by combining liquid nitrogen, gasoline and liquid oxygen−they were amazed at his skill. "It's surprisingly close to several motors already developed,"said John Womble, deputy chief of Redstone's Rocket Development Laboratory. "We found the fundamental approach clever and admirable...
After the committee had wrangled for 2½ hours, Paul Butler-who had backed Kerr-came out of the meeting to announce that Frank Clement had won the keynote spot. In Nashville, "Guv'nah Frank" tore up a telegram of congratulations he had prepared for Bob Kerr, allowed happily as how "we've had more telegrams and telephone messages on this than when we were re-elected governor...