Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tore apart the famous iron cot on which Mossadegh had reigned so long with weepy-eyed, irrational stubbornness. The rioters ripped the house to pieces, hauled the furniture into the streets and auctioned it off (a new electric refrigerator went for $36). Soon, nothing remained of 109 Kakh Street but memories of a regime which had stood Iran and the Western world on its ear for more than two years. But, even in his last hours of power, Mohammed Mossadegh cost the nation dear: 300 died that day. Dressed in silk pajamas, Mossadegh surrendered 24 hours later to General Zahedi...
...fell (i.e., the side was retired on the equivalent of three baseball outs). Then England batted, scoring 306 runs to gain a lead of 31 on the first of the match's two innings. On the third day, with Australia up at bat again, England's bowlers tore into Australia, putting them out for a measly 162. Triumph for England was only 132 runs away, and before dark her batsmen got 38 of them, for the loss of only one wicket. Ninety-four...
...Enter." There was other work to be done. Stripped to the waist in the hot sun, G.I.s tore sandbags from frontline bunkers and cut them up so that the Chinese might not sneak in and recover them. Heavy timbers, imported from the U.S., were salvaged and trucked to the rear. Camouflage netting and barbed wire were rolled up and taken away. For three days roads near the front were churned to dust as hundreds of trucks, shuttling to and from the front, carted off tons of ammunition, guns, flamethrowers, heavy machine guns, stoves, radios and telephone wire. Rear units knocked...
...open-air altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...
...about three-quarters of a mile, they tore through the brush, and the flames were gaining behind them. Fourteen of them turned then and tried to clamber up the canyon wall. They could not make it, and for those who tried digging foxholes, the shalelike earth would yield only a few inches. One strong man went on running and fighting through the brush down the canyon with the fire at his heels. He had gone a mile and a half when he fell exhausted, 50 yards from the point where the fire eventually died out. He was the 14th...