Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state Board could hardly have been expected to wait for this dramatic influx. It tore into the School Committee's plan and especially into its "massive" construction program. Of the 46 imbalanced schools, it pointed out, 34 were unaccounted for. No indication was given of when the projects listed might be completed; nor was any clear data provided on present or future school racial composition...
...began the meet by gliding to an easy victory in the 400-yard medley relay. Brooks entered only one swimmer in the next event, the 200-yard freestyle. Bob Buster, in his first race since a bout with the flu, took second behind the Lions' Bill Damm. Andy Grinstead tore off with the 50 in moderate time, 23.5 seconds, as sophomore Dan Magraw was just touched out for second...
...wells containing the water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore a gap in the Turkish lines, and through the gap Allenby hurled 9,000 horsemen. It was the last great cavalry charge in military history. In 36 hours, Allenby destroyed two Turkish armies and captured 80,000 men. Six weeks later, Turkey sued for peace...
...control, the other parties urged their followers to return to their homes. It was too late. Near Cannanore, a mob of 10,000 stopped a freight train and looted it. In the capital of Trivandrum an angry throng broke through police lines, then wrecked a railway station. Elsewhere rioters tore up rail track, built barricades across roads and highways, taunted police with the cry: "Shoot us or give us rice!" Police fired warning shots over the heads of the rioters, but no one was killed, though scores were injured in scuffles, and property damage was high...
Stephanopoulos ordered them to stop in the name of the law, but they ignored him. Young King Constantine signed a decree terminating the Assembly, but one bishop contemptuously tore it off the synod gate. Shrugging off a warning from the Ministry of Justice that they were committing a crime by electing and transferring bishops, the Assembly last week kept on sending them off to churches to be consecrated in affluent new jobs. The attendant congregations, instead of greeting the prelates with the liturgical chant of "Worthy, worthy," shouted "Unworthy! Unworthy!" and exchanged kicks and blows with the bishops' partisans...