Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell, however, rolled up the highest score of the season as it routinely tore apart Adams 68-19. Vaho Rebassoo and George Olive were the main point-producers...
...allow the ski edges to bite into the material on turns. Still others have developed mats with nylon bristles; they worked well?until the skier fell. Recalls Jack Kurlander, a founder of the Great Gorge ski area in New Jersey: "The bristles were needle-sharp and everybody tore his pants. There was blood, blood, blood. Boy! Were we embarrassed...
...Tokyo, Oerter had more than a bad neck to bother him; he was hemorrhaging from a ripped rib cartilage, and still he set an Olympic mark of 200 ft. 1½ in. In Mexico City, he slipped in the rain-soaked discus ring and tore a thigh muscle. Relaxants and ice treatments numbed the pain for the finals, and on his third toss he won his fourth gold medal. Oerter immediately began thinking ahead to Munich in 1972-and the possibility of a fifth title. "I think I can continue to improve until...
...obscure what should be remembered as a highly distinguished military career. Fro the time of his boyhood in Columbus, LeMay was fascinated with flight. At Ohio State, he busied himself with ROTC In 1928 he obtained a reserve commission and left for a National Guard summer camp. His classmates tore off to Los Angeles for weekends, but LeMay in his singleminded fashion often hung back to vivisect engines and study weather charts and navigation. With his accumulating skill as pilot, mechanic and navigator, he was summoned after seven years in fighters to fly the first of the Army...
...Exit. The tragedy jolted NASA out of the complacency that had built up during the highly successful Mercury and Gemini programs, in which a total of 16 manned craft were sent into space, maneuvered and recovered without serious mishap. In a frenzy of self-doubt, NASA virtually tore up the Apollo program, shifted personnel, and clamped down hard on the procedures and workmanship of North American's Space Division, prime contractors for the Apollo spacecraft...