Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, with a hearty "ally-oop" the ambulance crew tore the sitter from her sitting place and trundled her and the doctor to the hospital...
HALIFAX, N.S., Feb. 1--Forty-foot waves and freezing 60-mile winds tore the seas off Greenland Sunday, where searchers doggedly sought some trace of the little Danish ship Hans Hedtoft, believed lost with 95 persons after a collision with an iceberg...
President Eisenhower tore straight into the gathering battle over his newly offered balanced budget for 1960. Those who complained about the $77 billion budget, said Ike with rare punch at his press conference, are affected by "what might be called budgetary schizophrenia . . . They are on all sides...
Heaviest single toll was in Pittston, Pa., where the ice-clogged Susquehanna River tore away a railroad bed, gnawed a soft. hole into the weakened river bank, finally ate through a ceiling of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s big River Slope Mine. Without warning, 45 anthracite miners were washed waist-high by tomb-cold rising water. While emergency crews dumped telephone poles, bales of hay and even empty railroad gondola cars into the hole to block the water, 33 miners threaded through abandoned tunnels and shafts to safety. The other twelve were presumed drowned...
...Switzerland, Bud Werner, 22, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., swept the international men's downhill at Lenzerheide, after winning the previous week's downhill race at Kitzbuhel. Despite driving winds on the tricky 2.4-mile slope, Werner tore downhill in 2 min. 22.7 sec. to break the course record by 24 seconds...