Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henjyoji (123) quickly and efficiently tore apart Bill Harris, pinning him in a cradle at 21 seconds in the second period...
Some 500 students -- mostly freshmen -- hung James Craft, dean of men, in effigy in the Men's Quadrangle, and then stampeded toward the women's residence. They tore down a picket fence, they destroyed a plywood wall built around the site of construction of a fine arts building, but it took only two squad cars and four policemen to stop them short of the women's dorm...
MOTOR CARS OF THE GOLDEN PAST by Ken W. Purdy. 216 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $30. A nostalgic look at the days when now-vanished beauties such as the Apperson Jack Rabbit, the Pierce Arrow, the Willis Sainte Claire and the Stutz Bearcat tore up American roads. The vintage year was 1929, with its Kissel White Eagle, the Graham-Paige 837 with skirted fenders, the boat-tailed Auburn roadster and the dual-cowled Duesenberg phaeton. Park a while and reminisce...
...floods that tore through the Renaissance city of Florence have gone, but the mud and shock remain. So far, 885 objects of irreplaceable art have been declared casualties. The principal victim: Cimabue's 13th century Crucifix ion, drowned inside the Santa Croce museum, where waters rose more than 14 feet. "It's a corpse, the paint is gone, and it can only be displayed as a relic," said University of Pennsylvania Art Professor Frederick Hartt...
...Florence, the tide tore through the walls of jewelers' shops on the Ponte Vecchio (built in 1345) and inundated the Piazza, della Signoria. Propelling logs and other debris, it piled autos into heaps of smashed steel and left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce...