Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams are full of their death, and often at night we hear the desperate cries of the colonial peoples whom we were forced to abandon as our departing boats tore the last French flag from their gaze. The thought of our Tricolor, having led everywhere, having cast the shadow of French peace on the soil of Africa and Asia, gives us a heavy heart. But our dead, our battles, our faith forbid us the cowardice of weariness. The last battle...
...gathered around a TV screen at Cape Canaveral, watched the canister soar free. Out swelled the silvery balloon. It took shape swiftly-too swiftly. The balloon expanded to its full 135-ft-diameter in two seconds. Then a rip raced across the silvery skin; almost instantaneously the great balloon tore into shapeless shreds. The pictures were so good that they could be reshown on household TV sets. Back to the drawing boards went Echo A12's designers. But airborne TV had already told them what had gone wrong: Echo A12 contained too much residual air, which made the balloon...
...Imam simply hoped to pry as much cash as possible out of Nasser without changing his country (where slavery, public flogging and eye-for-an-eye justice are still practiced). The Imam dodged all meetings with Nasser, barred the twelve-member U.A.R. committee from convening in Yemen, and tore up all of its recommendations for reform. He was unimpressed when, in his new drive for socialism, Nasser jailed scores of capitalists and officers as "reactionaries," sequestered the wealth of hundreds of well-heeled Egyptians, nationalized some 400 businesses. Last fall, the Imam dashed off a little poem in classical Arabic...
From Cannes to Calais, he has caused tumult and bloodshed. Hoods in Paris, inspired by the sounds from his lips, tore three subway cars apart in his honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...
...have a close peep at a freshly assembled collection of pages from the Times, showing ads full of brassieres and what Paar called "crotch shots" of girdles and panties running side by side with reports on the world's most crucial news. Moving onward and downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York Journal-American for its "warmongering," its sex mania, and its "editorials by Tarzan: Me good American, you good American . . ." Peeling clip after clip from a stack of papers, he cited the A.P.'s mistaken report of Dag Hammarskjold's safe arrival...