Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Within two days, the temperature plummeted to the 20s, snow came cascading down, and icy winds gusted through the streets. Though no stranger to wintry storms, Chicago found itself in the brief space of 24 hours paralyzed by the worst blizzard in its history-a raging storm that tore through large sections of the Midwest and caused at least 75 deaths...
...Chateau Gendebien near the town of Mons. The chateau sits in a pleasant 30-acre parkland populated by pheasants and wild rabbits. Unfortunately, the house is pretty much in a state of nature, too. No one has lived there since 1959; five years ago, three vandals broke in and tore the place apart, smashing windows and yanking down chandeliers. It will take more than a year to renovate the shambles and install a few modern conveniences Mrs. Lemnitzer is likely to ask for. Unless, of course, she prefers to pump her own water in the kitchen...
According to Carlston, his assailants struck him, pushed him to the ground, and then kicked him. The youths then tore a watch from his wrist, though they did not try to steal his wallet...
Naylor spotted Stock about four inches in height and a couple of years in wrestling experience. But Naylor tore into Stock and twisted him down for a two point take-down and two points more for a predicament. Stock escaped immediately but the damage was done -- Naylor led 4-1 going into the second period. He hung on for a 5-2 win, despite a heel injury in the last minute...
...Manchester quotes her, "they can see what they've done." Another section that disturbed Jackie was Manchester's account of her feeling of emptiness and despair when she went to bed at the White House on the night of the assassination. In helpless, futile anguish, she tore at the pillow that night...