Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sales Force. In Los Angeles, the Phil Hall Buick Co. got a $20.93 bill from the traffic department after the elephant it rented as a promotion stunt tore the top off a parking meter, smashed it on the sidewalk...
...Yotre Sante. In Amarillo. Texas, determined to prevent her husband from having h's final Sunday bottle of beer, Mrs. Gertrude Camile drove her car through the saloon doorway, tore off 12 ft. of wall in a run that caused $1,000 damage to the bar. stepped out into the wreckage-strewn mess and clubbed him with a two-by-four...
...seashore after the last aircraft went by and as I swimming, I saw a boat. I couldn't get him to see me. Chuck, I was looking at the tree that I hit. You know, the old girl did a good job. She went right through. Tore hell out of the tree. But I do want to say that I'm sorry about everything...
Basic Equipment. In Worthington, Ohio, after he sideswiped a truck, cracked into four trees, knocked down a telephone guy wire, tore off a length of fence and crunched to a stop against the concrete steps of a house, Vincent E. Greene, 22, explained: "My horn got stuck...
...before Strydom arrived, 100 husky members of the Nasionale Jeugbond, the Nationalists' youth group, shouldered the women aside, and formed a solid, muscular phalanx inside the Black Sashers' double line. After Strydom had walked through, the Jeugbond huskies turned brusquely, ripped the black sashes off several women, tore up their placards reading "Respect our Constitution." Some shook their fists in the women's faces. "I'll hit you across the face as you've never been hit before," one threatened. Inside the hall, Justice Minister Swart fumed: "This ridiculous action by these people will only...