Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pose he wanted, and then began to slash away with bold strokes ... all the while keeping up a fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after having stood virtually motionless for 50 minutes-during which the artist completed one painting and then, to my horror, tore it up and began another-but when it was over, Dufy rewarded me with a good snifter of brandy and a pat on the back...
...clear dream had clouded over. The sharp-beaked vagaries of politics tore at the men who did most to shape and promote the EDC idea. First, down went Good European Robert Schuman, France's longtime Foreign Minister. He was thrown aside because France, tortured by division and illusion, turned in confusion and fear from its own brain child. Next went Good European Alcide de Gasperi, and Italy's ratification became questionable. The death of Stalin, and Churchill's insistence on sounding out the dictator's successor, gave the French more opportunity to haggle and hesitate...
Neighbors in his apartment house complained at the noisy, late parties he gave for his men friends. He was evicted as an "undesirable tenant" after one of his guests tore a washbasin off the wall, loosing streams of water which did $15,000 damage to the building. Harlow moved airily to an expensive room at the St. Moritz hotel...
...voters' freedom of choice. Neither is it by coincidence that the Western press is devoting so much attention to this 'star' now at a time when Adenauer is openly rearming . . . During the premiere of one of [Monroe's] films in New York, fans literally tore her clothing from her body and hardly noticed that at the same time McCarthy was violating the great democratic traditions of the American people...
...overturned on a curve, and six spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford, which came whipping around the blind turn. A bit later, near by, an Italian co-driver died under his Ferrari after it blew a tire and overturned. The survivors tore onward, and at first lap's end a record average speed of 94.86 m.p.h. was set by one of Italy's top drivers, Felice Bonetto, in a 245-h.p. Lancia. Other Italian-driven Lancias snorted in second and third...