Word: tore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's first drive of the game, that's just what happened. The trailing backs picked up two or three touch yards running inside every other play, but the Crimson really tore upfield on the plays the running...
...Government. Cruz says the Kennedy School received priority from the University because that contract required that Harvard pay a huge penalty for delay of completion. Cruz says the wait on the bricks forced the masonry to be delayed until weather conditions worsened. Last winter's record storms twice tore down the protective covering and staging needed for the masonry work. Cruz claims that both the brick supply delay and the bad weather caused a two-month setback. Cruz also alleges that Harvard gave the black brickworker subcontractor "a horrendous time" even though he did a very good job. He says...
Then, last week, Federal Judge Frederick Lacey tore into Farber, accusing him of harboring mixed motives. Farber, it turns out, is writing a book about the Jascalevich case and has been given a $75,000 advance by Doubleday, his publisher. Charging that Farber has a financial stake in seeing Jascalevich convicted, Lacey declared: "This is a sorry spectacle of a reporter who purported to stand on his reporter's privilege when in fact he was standing on an altar of greed." How can Farber justify revealing information to a publisher for profit, demanded the judge...
...deepest reaches of the Gulf Stream. Our skipper was Pete Peacock, 41, a contractor by trade but a fisherman by avocation, one of the best in the Miami area. If anyone could find the big broadbill, it was Peacock. Two other fishing boats tagged along in convoy as we tore out of the Cape Florida Channel at 30 m.p.h. The CB radio crackled with reports of battles near by: a 300-pounder landed off Fort Lauderdale ... a three-hour fight in progress with a gargantuan swordfish off Key Largo...
...native Vancouver one morning in 1967 when he heard on the radio, that the famous wall on Chicago's North Clark Street was about to be demolished. He immediately got on the telephone and, for a price he keeps to himself, bought it. Says he: "They tore down the wall and shipped it to me wrapped like fine china." Patey's idea, actually, was to use the wall to create publicity for a Roaring Twenties restaurant he was representing, but the restaurant owner thought the whole idea was, well, perhaps a little too roaring. "So I just kept...