Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the BRA tore down 14 houses in August, it has evicted no more residents. The Boston City Council has voted to ask the BRA to halt further evictions until the legislature acts on the pending bill...
...Communists in the armed services, and there was dark talk of a sweeping decree banning the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.). Under army pressure, Parliament suspended all its 57 Communist members. And as Yao yelped, 100,000 Moslem students attacked the Red Chinese consulate in Medan on Sumatra, tore down its flag, and howled "Chinese Go Home" for an hour...
Underwood was the only person arrested, although scuffles between the two groups of pickets took place all day Demonstrators stood quietly while a group of teenagers grabbed signs saying "Negotiations Now" and tore them to pieces. An Ayer resident offered the pickets a gallon can of gasoline and yelled C'mon, cowards...
...Belli's diagnosis was knocked down by his own star witness, Dr. Manfred Guttmacher, the veteran psychiatrist of Baltimore's criminal courts. Even though Guttmacher offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...
...ordered the Japanese film director. The cast took their places in the bedroom of a Tokyo inn. "Hajime [action]!" he shouted, and two underclad starlets tore into a frenzied catfight, clawing and crashing all over the minuscule room. The camera shots might have made Hugh Hefner blush, and the violence of the battle literally shook the foundations of the building-until an indignant old lady, the innkeeper, stalked in and demanded: "What goes on here? This is a respectable inn. I want an explanation, and it better be good...