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Word: tore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both strapped in so tightly we can hardly budge. Our every twitch is monitored by electrode caps on our heads. I tried to be good but after five days, I had had enough. Tugging about with my shoulders, I wrenched my left arm free of its restraint. I tore off my nameplate. I don't know why but I enjoyed it. I must have ripped off something else in the process, because now my food supply tube seems to be stuck. Fortunately, the juice dispenser still works. Barring a bumpy re-entry, I should survive the trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Station, Can You Read Me? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Halfback Tony Hinz scored touchdowns in the second and third quarters and tore up the Big Green defense for 152 yards rushing to lead the Crimson to a 42-3 victory in front of 20,500 spectators...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Turn Green Black and Blue | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Mills tore cartilage in his right knee while playing soccer last May, and has not been fit enough this season to reclaim his starting position...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: A Scottish Sensation | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...Then he tore her clothes off and had sex with her, she said. "Jim Bakker is not going to have you. You are mine," she quoted him as saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Not A Bimbo,' Hahn Says In Playboy | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...Warden Hilton Butler nodded slightly to a man known only as "Sam Jones," who stood hidden behind a cinder-block partition. The executioner proceeded to throw a lever and press two black buttons, and the first 2,400-volt surge of current tore through Rault's 6-ft., 228-lb. frame. Two minutes later the power stopped, and at 12:16 Prison Doctor Alfred Gould stepped forward to pronounce Rault dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Victim in This | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

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