Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope of becoming "exotic"' dancers, many of the girls are forced to serve a dark apprenticeship in hustling drinks, picking pockets, and prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they are all members of the American Guild of Variety Artists. But A.G.V.A. clearly has done little or nothing to improve their working conditions. Said Stripper Corinne Stein...
...sublets the place had been charging Thant $1,200 a month until the commission sued him for rent gouging and demanded $51,700 triple damages on Thant's behalf. Not at all, protested the landlord. The gouge was on the other side. Thant's cat "tore the dam ask curtains, ripped up the carpets and upholstery," and left him with $6,447 in damages. Thant's aides were skeptical...
...discovered the Ferdinand side of Aught's complex personality. Outside of working hours, he likes people. He certainly hates other bulls. "In 1950, when I bought him," says Aught's owner, Washington Stock Contractor Joe Kelsey, "I tried putting him in with the other bulls. He tore into them. I tried putting him in a separate corral, but that didn't work either. Corrals with a low fence, he'd charge right through, and when I put him in an arena with a six-foot fence, he'd jump right over it." Now Kelsey tethers...
...very bad. On the other hand, if I issue a statement now backing you up. in effect people will accuse me of condoning wrongdoing." At the height of the fund crisis, Nixon wrote out a letter of withdrawal from the ticket-which his campaign manager, Murray Chotiner. tore up. Even when the telegrams of support for Nixon were.; flooding in after the "Checkers" speech, there was still no message from Eisenhower-owing to garbled communications, as it turned out. Nixon moodily concluded that Ike was still undecided about keeping him on the ticket. At that point, he admits, Nixon...
National Review tore the society to shreds (see PRESS). And Father Benjamin...