Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trial for Fascism. At the annual Frankfurt fall book fair, 200 chanting students gleefully tore up Springer books and magazines. Oblivious to similar acts in the Nazi era, left-wing Erlangen University students staged a burning of Springer publications. A group of liberal writers declared they will never again write for a Springer paper and urged their publishers to withhold advertising from Springer publications. When Springer went to give a speech at the Hamburg Overseas Club recently, he had to slip in a side door while five squads of riot police protected him from angry pickets, whose banners declared: "Never...
Within minutes a team of firemen was on the scene. After some confusion about the source of the smoke, the firemen climbed through the third story window of H-34 and tore down the fire door 'eading to H-33. Brandishing gas masks, fire axes, and two hoses, they soon had the blaze under control...
...Worsts. She is just as uncompromising in her condemnations. Three years ago, while assistant curators winced in the background, she tore apart Architect Edward Durell Stone's Gallery of Modern Art stone by stone. She has panned designs for postage stamps and highway signs, and for good measure, aired her nominations for the "six worst man-made objects"-it was not such a daring list at that: Manhattan's Pan Am Building, Dali's Last Supper, the suburban builder's typical tacky house, some glass sculpture at Lincoln Center, a lamp with a violin...
...Dartmouth 48, Harvard 0--Blackman took ample revenge as Dartmouth tore to a 35-0 halftime lead. Paul Klungness and Bob O'Brien each scored twice...
...stay sane, the women tore pieces from the plane's upholstery and used them for pinochle cards. They took turns writing down different kinds of food they wished they had, gifts they would like. On April 30, Carla wrote, "This is my 16th birthday. I hope you are happy, Search and Rescue. You haven't found us yet." Then, her last entry, on May 4th: "Today is a bright and drippy, drippy day. We are completely soaked...