Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rearing horses showered about him. Pale but resolute, Mollet went up the steps through the barrage to the war memorial, and laid there a wreath honoring Algiers' war veterans. Even as the Spahis cleared a path for him back to his car, the demonstrators swarmed upon the monument, tore his wreath to shreds...
...start. Down the first straightaway he flashed, arms swinging in time with his skates. At the turn his speed pulled him wide; he leaned hard to stay on course. Under his flying feet, steel blades brushed snow at the lane's edge. One more turn and he tore into the stretch...
...symmetrical 38-24-38. When she flounces into Rome's most elegant restaurants, a dramatic hush falls on the room while members of the international set stare at her like hayseeds. Last year, during a personal appearance in Bologna, a mob of males became so impassioned that they tore off her shoes as souvenirs...
...Death tore the mask off a happy childhood and an easy faith, when his mother died of cancer. "To this day I do not know what they mean when they call dead bodies beautiful. The ugliest man alive is an angel of beauty compared with the loveliest of the dead...
DURING the congressional debate over Federal regulation of natural-gas producers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, who favors regulation, tore into the gas lobby for trying "to put pressure on me." But Senator Potter also had a powerful lobby working for his side: representatives of scores of Eastern utilities and big unions, plus a small-producers'-and-consumers' committee headed by Indianapolis' former Mayor Alex M. Clark...