Word: tore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black militants met in Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church one night last year, shooting began outside. Seven bullets tore into a white policeman and killed him. Soon 50 white officers shot their way into the church, leaving 100 bullet scars on its walls and pews, and corralled 142 people including several small children. Judge Crockett, 60, rushed to police headquarters, legally created an impromptu courtroom and began releasing prisoners on their own recognizance. Within hours, the prosecutor agreed to let all but twelve go home. Over his objections, Crockett freed...
...surveillance after the assassination attempt; when he tried to leave the island, policemen ordered him off a Beirut-bound airliner as it prepared for takeoff. Last week, barely 48 hours after his departure was thwarted, he was ambushed while driving on the road from Nicosia to Famagusta. Six bullets tore into his back and left side, killing him instantly...
...finally arrived 15 weeks later. Undaunted, Reed went to the store to buy sheets. Two men came up and declared: "You're under arrest." Why? "You're using a stolen credit card. Rex Reed is dead." Great confusion. Reed flashed all his identity cards, the detectives apologized?and then tore up his store charge card. Why? "Our computer has been told that you are dead. And we cannot change this...
...Harvard will not enter the NCAA's as a team, especially after Dean Sheppard, an outside hope at 150, tore cartilages on two ribs against Yale last Saturday...
Aware of these sentiments, Rogers was clearly on edge as his military 707 neared Lagos; he wrote his arrival speech, had it typed, then tore it up and rewrote it. In conversations on the plane, he stumbled over some words. At the airport, he nervously greeted Rear Admiral J.E.A. Wey, acting Foreign Minister, as "General," an error that he never corrected...