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Word: tore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defensively it was Johnson and Kanuth who stood out. In the first Harvard-Yale game this season, in New Haven, Frank Wisneski tore the Crimson apart with solid long-range shooting. But Saturday Johnson put the lid on, holding "Wizzer" to six points...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Hoopsters Upset Blues In Final Home Contest | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

Predawn Derring-Do. Every so often the Marines came across pockets of American civilians, some of whom had been successfully hiding out for nine days. When they liberated the Thua Thien province headquarters, the Marines tore down the Viet Cong flag, one of dozens the Communists had planted throughout the city, and raised the Stars and Stripes. Their commander had told them to run up the South Vietnamese flag, but two Marines had died and two others had been wounded in taking the building; they were not about to be denied the satisfaction of raising their own flag (though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Battle of Hu | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...began upstairs when he tore my clothes off in the closet. Then he raped me standing up with a metal "clothes hanger twisted around my neck, choking me. I could hardly breathe. It was exquisite! Then one thing led to another. Those small attentions a girl like me cherishes ... A lighted cigarette stubbed out on my derriere, a complete beating with his great thick heavy leather belt. . . All the usual fun things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Myra the Messiah | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Halliwell exhibits satiric and sympathetic attitudes toward his characters, and the actors took advantage of it. James Hoare (playing Dennis Charles Nipple) delivered a magnificent speech about the lay of his life-time. She was, according to him, a dark-skinned sensuous-lipped lady who tore his clothes off. Hoare gave absurdity its due: he relished his prose almost as much as he relished the illusive charmer. But when he stood before a tribunal consisting of his pals--they gave him the choice of pleading Guilty or Very Guilty--he dropped all rhetoric, became a madman in a circle...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Little Malcolm, etc. | 12/12/1967 | See Source »

Junior and senior high school students took copies of the paper and tore them up, shouting, "Those hippies are faggots!" and "All the way with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Avatar' Free for All in Square | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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