Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luigi Rizzi, 24, handsome Italian nightclub owner with whom she was glimpsed soaking up the sun au naturel. Things livened up one night when a tourist insulted her and friends hurled a few bottles at the feckless foe. Otherwise, life has been quiet for BB and beau. Gunther, meanwhile, tore himself away from the North Sea's nudist beaches long enough to file for divorce, accusing Brigitte of "an abusive conception of marriage and premeditated abandonment of the household." To which Brigitte responded with a peal of laughter...
...tangled with Big Daddy-and always come off second best. A few years ago, Bermuda's Captain Russell Young had an epic 31-hour battle with a marlin that he estimated at 15 ft. long. Young actually brought the fish to gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire was so discombobulated that he "bird...
...Rock Pile. The full extent of their fury makes Watts look like a street squabble. The mobs were so huge that they sometimes completely jammed the broadest streets. They tore down telegraph poles and burly Irish women wielding crowbars tore up the tracks of the street railways. At one point, 50 soldiers formed a double line with fixed bayonets and tried to halt a mob marching on Third Avenue. They fired a volley into the crowd before they were overrun and took to their heels. One soldier tried to escape by scrambling up a rock pile near 42nd Street...
...came by the house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child can sure enough...
...brought waves of gospel talent into the blues field, and at the same time offered blues performers a chance to employ the climactic cadences and mythic ritual of black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...