Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blazing Shotgun. Two days later, a fire nearly destroyed the Lewises' small home, forced them to move to nearby Pomona. After they returned in May, they reported a series of thefts. Next, the Lewises insisted, they were plagued by a shotgun blast that tore into their house while they were eating; by carloads of white teen-agers who roared by, jeering "nigger lover"; by young white hoodlums accosting their six children, even to the point of shoving the youngest daughter, on her tricycle, down Castle Hill toward traffic...
...Miami Beach's Americana Hotel for galas, at some $300,000 a throw. Ford once unwrapped not only its new line but a lissome young lady who pranced around in little but her chassis. Another time, Ford distributed Fairlane fenders as gifts. General Motors' Buick Division once tore up the lobby floor at Flint's Durant Hotel and installed a trout stream for newsmen...
...Enemy Within, which was on and off the compilers' list so many times that they lost count, eventually survived scrutiny by librarians and scholars across the country. And the scholars were tough. When the Yale economics department looked over the economics section, says Librarian Babb, "they tore it apart...
...tornado ten years ago swept through Flint, Mich., and tore up the town. Afterward, hundreds of people came from miles around to pitch in and help rebuild. Up walked an old geezer wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...downtown section of the city. They got as far as the first intersection. There, cops waited with dogs, tear-gas guns and rifles. As the mob spilled toward the police, the people yelled, "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!" The cops rushed the crowd. One dog leaped for a woman. Screams tore through the air as the police grabbed the woman and carried her down the street...