Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head, then disappeared as he fell toward Jackie on his left. The first shot was not fatal; the second was. The time between the two bullets' impact was between 4.8 and 5.6 seconds, said the commission. Connally, too, had been badly hurt: a bullet slammed into his back, tore across a rib and out his chest, shattered his right wrist and entered his left thigh...
Studying the ads submitted, Lufthansa itself rejected several phrases, including one claiming that "German mechanics love their nuts and bolts more than their wives." The public rejected more of the ads. From all parts of the world suddenly came protesting letters. One U.S. reader tore out an ad with a reference to "fanatical thoroughness" and sent it to Lufthansa's Cologne headquarters with the marginal notation, "i.e., Eichmann." Another, objecting to the claim that Germans do everything with "painful thoroughness," commented, "particularly gas chambers." An Israeli sent in a six-page, handwritten letter of criticism. From London...
...have married next week, and Student-Store Clerk Lana Phillips, 21, fell wounded within seconds of each other. At Sheftall's jewelers, Manager Homer Kelley saw three youths fall wounded outside, was helping to haul them inside when Whitman zeroed in on the shop. Fragments from two bullets tore into Kelley's leg. Windows shattered. Bullets tore huge gashes in the carpeting inside. North of the tower, Associated Press Reporter Robert Heard, 36, was hit in the shoulder while he was running full tilt. "What a shot!" he marveled through his pain...
Ground fire tore into his Crusader outside Haiphong, setting it aflame and pushing the plane into an all but ungovernable wobble. Unable to reach the sea, Adams cajoled the faltering craft toward a desolate-looking mountain area, away from the densely populated Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Half a mile from a looming mountain peak, at an altitude of 200 ft., he radioed: "Sorry about that. See you in a year"-then he pulled his cockpit ejection loops seconds before the plane piled into the peak...
Blueprint for Unity. Will the journey bring an end to the cold war or just a Franco-Russian nonaggression pact like the one De Gaulle concluded on his last visit to Moscow in 1944, which the Soviets tore up after West Germany joined NATO in 1955? Will there be a new shape to the Continent? Certainly France and Russia - allies of old in the broad European context - have it in their power to change the structure of Europe. De Gaulle has already generated a new atmosphere in the Western alliance, and the Russians are under considerable pressure to alter...