Word: tore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ulster's parliament, and amnesty for political prisoners. But the initiative stirred little response from either the Stormont or Westminster government, leading one I.R.A. leader to declare: "It's now total war." The day after the truce ended, a 200-lb. gelignite bomb shattered windows and tore the roofs off several buildings in downtown Belfast. Another I.R.A. explosive, left in a parked car, killed two British Army specialists who were trying to dismantle...
...week. Like Richard Nixon's equally staged reception on his return to Washington, it had domestic political purposes. Plainly, the Chou show was designed to arouse popular support for Peking's U.S. rapprochement, which had apparently been an element in the power struggle that all but tore the regime apart last fall...
...British army's 16th Parachute Brigade headquarters in Aldershot, 40 miles south of London, an event occurred that could go down in history as Bloody Tuesday. Just before lunchtime, a Ford Cortina containing 280 Ibs. of gelignite exploded beside the unguarded officers' mess. The blast tore through the concrete-slab building, injuring 19 and killing seven-five women, a civilian gardener and a Catholic chaplain who had been decorated for his attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland...
...Drennam" Lowell '44 performed the two-hour operation to reattach Bok's left Achilles tendon, which Bok tore 1': inches above the heelbone while rebounding late in the first half of the game at Hemenway Gymnasium...
Falling into the carnival spirit, a crowd chanting "Mobutu, cha, cha, cha!" promptly tore down a statue of King Leopold II of the Belgians. Then they toppled a bronze statue of Explorer Stanley, which stood on a hill once named for him but now called Mount Ngaliema. On hand for the festivities was Foreign Minister Mario Cardoso, who these days is known as Mario-Philippe Losende. Like other Zaïrians who had foreign fathers, he was obliged by law to take the name of his African mother...