Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had a longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant, popular Democratic Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. The Republican Party of California lay wrecked on the shoals of Bill Knowland's ambition...
...campaign, off weeks ago to a slow-paced start, picked up speed and tore into its final week with drums thumping and speakers sprouting from every stump. Against gloomy predictions of voter apathy, U.S. registration reached an alltime nonpresidential-year high of an estimated 76,145,600 (v. 74,879,146 in 1954). Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments...
...breaking goal, at times by inches. The most exciting of these came in the last ten seconds of regulation time whn Bagnoli made a wonderful save on a high shot. The ball hit the crossbar and bounded down right in front of the goal. A Penn forward tore in and as Bagnoli lay helplessly on the ground headed the ball at the goal. The ball just cleared the nets and the game went into its fruitless overtime...
...left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together to the hills...
...students' waking hours, their life has its less serious moments. The student body recently protested against the administration's decision to erect fences around the campus so as to prevent the boys from sneaking off to nearby Ibadan at night. No sooner were the fences installed than indignant vigilantes tore them down; they were promptly expelled. They were later readmitted, however and at present the outcome of this great clash of wills is in doubt. At any rate the ouburst reaffirmed what to the male college student is surely a fundamental human right...