Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without knowing it, Needle Nose and Weinberg were, on that day in 1953, spilling their plans into a "bug," i.e., a hidden microphone. On the floor above, a husky cop named Joe Morris tore off his earphones, made for the office of Lawyer Abraham Teitelbaum, counsel and general organizer of the Restaurant Association. The cops glued a 24-hour bodyguard around Teitelbaum; later Labriola and Weinberg were found drugged and strangled in the trunk of an abandoned car-presumably because the mob considered that they were both hot and talky...
Come to the Fair. The strikers counted on one thing in their favor: an international trade fair was being held in Poznan, and the city was crowded with foreign visitors. Groups of young strikers converged on the fair, tore down the Soviet flag and raised banners bearing such slogans as "Down With This Phony Communism!" and "Russians Get Out!"−as well as appeals for higher wages, for freedom, and for the release of Cardinal Wyszynski (Primate of Poland, under arrest since September 1953). Any Westerner they saw (easily distinguishable by being better dressed) they greeted hopefully. "This...
...text confirms the general outline leaked at the time, describing how-passionately and sometimes weeping-Khrushchev tore aside the curtain of Communist propaganda that has veiled the late Joseph Stalin's long reign of terror (TIME, March 26 et seq.). It also adds many fascinating details...
...miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked away. Behind him, four cars (out of 33 entered) swirled into a slow-motion mixup...
...that inevitable slide down had begun. Not Roberts. One night last week, with his cool and easy motion on the mound and his reckless behavior on the base paths, he beat the league-leading Milwaukee Braves almost singlehanded, 2-1. He struck out ten men, allowed only eight hits, tore home from second on an eighth-inning infield single, slid head first into big Del Crandall at the plate, jarred the catcher loose from the ball and scored the run that tied up the game. When Roberts took his turn again, four days later, the red-hot sluggers...