Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bearing Skyraiders came in to the dam on a wide arc, flying low between the mountains, ready for a quick run and a sharp pullout. The first two planes dropped their torpedoes in close parallel, blowing out completely a central floodgate. Four other Skyraiders dropped torpedoes; one of them tore a ten-foot hole in a second floodgate. Water poured out of the dam; minutes later, the Pukhan began to rise. From the U.S. Army to the U.S. Navy-which had never before used torpedoes on inland targets-went an enthusiastic "Well done...
Obviously, Harvard would create much ill-will if it tore down these buildings and the people had no place to live, although a year ago it was able to demolish one of its tenements at 7 Cowperthwaite Street...
Northwest's trouble with the 202s began in 1948 when a wing, said Northwest, "tore off in flight." Northwest grounded the planes to strengthen the wings, and filed a still unsettled $725,000 suit against Martin charging delivery of defective planes (TIME, April 25, 1949). When the Civil Aeronautics Board investigated the 1950 crashes, it found nothing structurally wrong with the planes. But after the crash last January, the Civil Aeronautics Administration recommended 63 modifications in each 202 (cost per plane, $15,000). It did not think the modification's serious enough to ground the planes...
...Like Actor Hayden, Writer Richard Collins had broken with the party and saw no reason to "go to jail for a year, for guys I don't even like any more." Among them: Novelist Budd Schulberg, who, he said, quit the party in a huff after the Reds tore into his What Makes Sammy Run?, Producer Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen, a score of other lesser Hollywood citizens...
...drivers stepped on the gas, tore into the British sector. Walter Waaske, driver of one bus, told what happened next: "All of a sudden a policeman turned his pistol toward my bus and shot. The bullet hit the windshield, and I could not see through it. I drove as fast as possible toward Potsdamer Strasse. Two more bullets hit the bus. One went through the coat of an officer sitting behind me." One of the passengers was 13-year-old Kristin Norstad, daughter of Lieut. General Norstad, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. She called the incident...