Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burden of Morality. When it was Warren Austin's turn, he read a few sentences from his typewritten, heavily corrected text, then suddenly looked up and, off the cuff, tore into the "Soviet bloc who cannot open their mouths in this committee without giving vent to hatred of all independent countries." After he calmed down, Austin sharply and simply defined the issue before...
...Austrian side of the Alps was worse hit than the Swiss. Forty-five thousand people in the Austrian provinces of Tyrol, Styria and Salzkammergut were cut off from the outside world. A rumbling avalanche tore down the slopes of Gross-Glockner mountain and swallowed up the resort village of Heiligenblut. Slides killed 14 near the famous health resort of Bad Gastein. To help in rescue work, French occupation commanders placed their entire 4,000-man military force at the disposal of Austrian authorities...
Stewardess Mary Frances Housley threw open the door. Men & women rushed for it. One woman jumped with her coat on fire, tore it off and ran from the scene. Pretty, 24-year-old "Frankie" Housley stood by the door, coolly advising her passengers to "take your time." One panic-stricken woman crawled along the aisle away from the door and toward the nose of the plane. Another woman screamed: "Get my baby." Frankie could have jumped. Instead, she turned back into the flaming cabin...
...most sensational story from Tokyo. He cabled that "authoritative sources" had told him that General MacArthur had recommended to Washington that the U.S. withdraw from Korea. When Beech first showed the story to Colonel Esher C. Burkart, chief of MacArthur's press "advisory" division, Colonel Burkart tore up the first two pages. Then Beech took another copy to Colonel Echols who, after suggesting a few qualifying changes, approved it. But when the story got a front-page play in many U.S. papers, Colonel Echols flatly branded the story "a goddam lie," although he did not explain...
...royalties from Anglo-Iranian made up at least one-sixth to one-fifth of the government's annual revenues. But as the company's prosperity grew, so did Iran's insistence that it get a larger slice of the profits. Late in 1932, the Iranian government tore up the original agreement and forced Anglo-Iranian to hike royalties and hitch them to the size of the stockholders' dividends. In return, it extended the concession...