Word: tore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday the hillside under Mameyes suddenly buckled. The slide started near the top of the slope and gathered force in an avalanche of devastation. A shear of heavy clay and loosened limestone outcroppings tore through the flimsy homes, crushing many like so much matchwood and trapping their occupants. "I cannot explain how we are alive," recounted Julio Maldonado, who with his wife and six children escaped the swath of the slide. "First the entrance wall fell off, and then the other walls fell off. And then we were sliding down, sandwiched between the floor and the ceiling...
Last summer, University officials tore down "Shantytown", a mock structure erected as a "symbolic expression of the divestment movement." Johnston said that activists are currently taking Cornell to court, claiming that the university's action is a violation of their free-speech rights...
Marsha Adams entered, tall, striking mother of two. She bent down, tore off the printout, held it lightly as a feather. I peeked. Eureka! There it was, the National Debt -- $1,823,105,258,488.19, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985, 11 a.m. When Marsha was born in 1956 the Debt had been only one-seventh as big. Did the burden crush her, I blurted? Not really, she said. She whisked it across the hall to be fed into more computers, which ultimately spewed it out to cringing auditors and suffocating finance ministers around the globe. Then what? Well, said Marsha...
Experience proves her point. In the fall of her junior year at Brighton, Dushay tore ligaments in her right foot and spent six weeks in a cast. She did not fully recover from the injury for almost a year...
...Crimson defensive line, however, is inexperienced. Nonetheless, since the first half of the Columbia game--when Lion quarterback Henry Santos sat in the pocket and tore the secondary to shreds--the pass rush has looked adequate...