Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers got noisily drunk, tore up farmers' fences for wood, quarreled with their officers, and carried on lewdly with female camp followers. New Englanders, thei commander noted privately, "are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people." Washington personally had to issue the most elementary sort of orders: that drunkenness be prohibited, that soldiers keep themselves and their camps clean. He had to do so throughout the war. He also had to put up for years with an even more horrifying phenomenon, which presented itself at Boston: his army began melting away, for militiamen, enlisted for short terms of only...
...boys believe they may be getting into the "fanatic fan" class. Says Jethro: "After we appeared on a hillbilly show at Symphony Hall in Boston-that's the best hillbilly town ever-the young gals outside like to tore us apart...
...work even after a Russian officer offered to free the arrested men if they would go back. Joined by strikers from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted for overthrow of the Communist regime, tore down Communist posters, ripped party pins off Communist lapels. They marched on Brandenburg proper, stormed the city prison and freed political prisoners. They spotted the district attorney, seized him, handcuffed him, threw him atop a police car and beat him to death. A "people's judge," found cowering...
...Leipzig, 1,400 zinc and steel workers marched on strike, tore hats and guns away from traffic policemen who tried to halt them, grabbed Leipzig Mayor Uhlich and forced him to march at the head, his chest covered with a sign saying: "Down with the Government!" Where one German fell dead from a Vopo's bullet, the revolters heaped flowers and set up a sign: "Here a German was shot to death by a German...
...refugee: "Miners in the Ostrava pits went on strike for five days; the soldiers refused to fire on them. Convinced Communists tore party emblems from their lapels, spat on them. Plant militia killed three miners. One militiawoman who shot a miner was beaten to death...