Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four days later, 22 miles southeast of Pell City in Talladega, a molder and sometime Methodist minister named Roy Heath tore up his Klan membership papers, said to his wife, "Maude, pray for me," kissed her, and then, after she left for church took down his shotgun and killed himself. His three sons and his two nephews told state investigators a bizarre and helpful story. One of the nephews, at Heath's urging, had replaced a broken glass window in a maroon Chevrolet the night of the Hurst murder. Heath had confessed to his sons that he took part...
Garry Davis, 27, who tore up his U.S. passport in June 1948 to become a "citizen of the world," was trying to return to his native land. In Strasbourg, France, he applied at the U.S. consulate for an immigration visa, was told to go to Paris to get it. Davis said he was "astounded" at the news that Audrey Peters, 20, a Hollywood dancing teacher he had written to but never met, had announced her engagement to him. Dancer Peters said she started corresponding with Davis six months ago and "things got out of control . . . you know...
...fascinated, not only by his rasping assurance, but by his astringent and stinging humor. His audience roared with laughter when he happily recounted what happened after he discovered FBI men were searching his room in Manhattan's Edison Hotel in 1940. He typed a series of mysterious notes, tore them up, and planted them in his wastebasket; then he rented a room in a nearby hotel and nightly watched through binoculars as the G-men tried to put. the pieces together...
...first of two meetings with the Eaglets, today's contest is the third collegiate opposition the freshmen have faced this year. Last month they defeated Brown, 7 to 5, then tore into Hanover and trounced the Dartmouth freshmen, 5 to 1. The Crimson will be looking for their sixth straight win today. The string includes Brown, Dartmouth, Belmont Hill, Andover, and Noble and Greenough...
...Berlin, some Russians were themselves blockaded in the U.S. sector of the city. They worked in the massive grey Reichsbahn-Direktion, headquarters of the Soviet-controlled railroad spiderweb radiating from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...