Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just My Bill. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Bina Evans, contesting her husband's divorce action, told the judge that after a family spat he "broke my teeth and my nose, tore my ear, broke my arm and some ribs, but outside of that he's an awful good man, and there's no one in the world I love more...
...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...
...Alsace one day last week, a restaurant owner publicly tore off his Legion of Honor ribbon, the French flag was flown at half-mast, army reserve officers sent in their military papers, lawyers refused to appear in court, and church bells tolled-all in protest against the verdict of a French military court 350 miles away in Bordeaux. Among the 20 former SS soldiers found guilty that morning of having taken part in the massacre of 642 men, women & children at Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944 (TIME, Jan. 26) were 14 Alsatians. Mostly youths of about 17 at the time...
...early November, just before the Committee adjourned, Trygve Lie resigned. Senator McCarran was quick to read this as the results of the "disclosures of the Committee." And only three days later, on November 14, Abraham H. Feller, the U.N.'s legal counsel, tore himself from his wife's grasp to leap from his twelve story apartment window...
...Belgium, another great area-homeland to some 3,000,000-was swept by floods. In Ostend, one of the cities worst hit, the wind tore a baby from the arms of a woman struggling to escape and tossed the child into swirling water in the street to drown. In Antwerp, 120 yds. of docks crumpled into the Scheldt estuary...