Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October 1950, the Communists tore up a line of French forts along the China border, killed or captured 2,300 out of 3,000 French Union troops near Caobang, and shoved the remnants back to Hanoi. In disaster, the proud French back home rallied strong. France' sent in its best man, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. "From now'on," dynamic De Lattre told his men, "you will...
...flood of water spread throughout the building. They invaded a science classroom, smashed its vials, overturned desks, scattered papers and exhibits over the floor. They sprayed halls and corridors with fire extinguishers, partly burned a school banner, slashed furniture in a teachers' lounge, spattered paint through two classrooms, tore up books in the library. But to veteran Manhattan teachers, all this was not unusual. In the past few years, they have become increasingly accustomed to what the New York Daily News has called the new three Rs-"rowdyism, riot and revolt...
Before dawn, some 400 Mau Mau came out of their strongholds to fight in the open. They first raided the white man's clubhouse at Thika, 34 miles northeast of Nairobi. They dragged out the African barman and slashed him to bits with their sharp pangas; they tore up a picture of Sir Winston Churchill, downed all the mineral water in the bar, and made off towards the police post at Kandara, 16 miles away. At 9:30 a.m. they confidently attacked the post in bright sunshine−but the British were ready and waiting. A relieving column...
...Figure. Speaking to a Chicago convention of sand, gravel and ready-mixed concrete dealers, Congressman Cole revealed a single, overwhelming fact: "The thermonuclear test of 1952 completely obliterated the test island in the Eniwetok Atoll. It tore a cavity in the floor of the ocean-a crater-measuring a full mile in diameter and 175 ft. in depth at its lowest point...
Dempster took to the Zambezi a service rifle. 4,000 rounds of war-surplus ammunition and a wooden dinghy with an outboard motor. He soon met an indignant bull-hippo, who immediately seized both the dinghy and the Zulu helmsman and tore them to pieces. Dempster also found that his hard-nosed service bullets were useless: they ricocheted off a croc's bumpy hide. But the worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into...