Word: tore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the grace and poise of champions, the netwomen meticulously, the netwomen meticulously tore apart their outclassed opponents--never allowing the Big Red so much as a flicker of hope...
Although a staggered start had Penn in front of Radcliffe at the gun, the Black and White tore past the Quakers in the first 100 meters of the 2000-meter course. The lights exploded from the start and maintained their boatlength for the remainder of the course...
...Descanso Barbeque restaurant, a popular eating place outside Madrid and only five miles from the U.S. air base at Torrejon, was packed with about 300 people last Friday night. Suddenly, an explosion tore through the building. At least 18 people died and 82 were injured. The blast may have been a terrorist attack aimed at U.S. military personnel who regularly eat at the restaurant. No Americans were killed, but eleven were injured. Two newspapers later received telephone calls claiming that ETA, the Basque separatist group, was responsible. Calls to Madrid radio stations claimed that an urban terrorist group called GRAPO...
...dove, Johnson and Kennedy. Says George McGovern, who ran on an antiwar platform in the 1972 presidential election and was buried in the landslide that gave Richard Nixon a second term: "The Viet Nam tragedy is at the root of the confusion and division of the Democratic Party. It tore up our souls...
...tore off her clothes and ran down the road screaming in pain, the victim of a misplaced napalm strike by the South Vietnamese air force. The 1972 picture of nine-year-old Kim Phuc (page 26) became a symbol for all the innocent victims of Viet Nam. Last summer, at 21, Kim Phuc traveled to Ludwigshafen, West Germany, for skin grafts on her neck and arms. Back in * Viet Nam she studies at Ho Chi Minh University, but she is still said to be in pain and often too sick to attend classes...