Word: tore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will retire in June after 17 years as pastor, raised spirits and rafters with a 45-minute sermon, titled "Believing the % Unbelievable," that addressed issues ranging from Jesus' Resurrection to Joel Steinberg's fall. As 17 souls were baptized in the pool behind the pulpit, the Jewel Thompson choir tore into Take Me to the Water. That joyful noise is the church's heartbeat...
Burns, a returning All-America, was named the 1987 Outstanding Collegiate Sailor and received last year's Senior Award (for sportsmanship). Burns, along with senior crew Geoff Kurland, who was ranked among the top-10 college crews last year, tore up the race course last weekend at the S.U.N.Y. Admiral Moore Intersectional Regatta. They cruised to a first-place finish with a comfortable 17-point lead. For the remainder of the season, Burns will be sailing with his regular crew, four-year varsity member Deb Dubin...
...Friday nine weeks ago, and another issue of TIME was headed toward the presses. Suddenly came the news that Emperor Hirohito of Japan had died. As the magazine's editorial staff tore up its story list to accommodate several pages of an obituary, makeup editor Charlotte Quiggle faced a different kind of revision. Her job is to develop a plan for the sequence of all the editorial and advertising pages each week so they make a smoothly readable magazine. TIME's advertising staff immediately told Japanese advertisers that they were free, if they wished, to cancel ads in that issue...
...airplane can in fact last forever." Boeing Chairman Frank Shrontz could have been speaking for the entire airline industry when he delivered that traditional wisdom to a gathering of aviation experts in Washington last month. But just two days later, a cargo door and part of the skin tore away from a 19-year-old Boeing 747 shortly after it left Hawaii, sucking nine passengers from the plane. Investigators have not yet officially determined the cause of the failure, but they have focused on the possibility of a faulty door lock...
...President Carlos Andres Perez warned Venezuelans that hard times were ahead for their heavily indebted, oil-exporting country. Even he had no idea how hard -- or how soon. Last week the citizens of one of Latin America's most stable democracies were in shock after a social explosion that tore apart downtown Caracas, the capital, and shattered the peace in at least 16 other cities. Government-imposed austerity measures had ignited a three-day free-for-all of rioting, looting and killing that left an estimated 300 people dead, 2,000 injured and another 2,000 in jail...