Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nature itself seemed deranged by the violence. Whirlwinds tore through the city. Fires jumped rivers with ease. Dark, marble-size drops of water--later called black rain--condensed off the explosion's towering smoke and fell to earth...
Everyone jumped when one round tore in, smashed into some communications gear and bounced harmlessly off the back of Castro's flak jacket. The Marine behind him handed the sergeant major a 7.62-mm slug. Castro handed it back with a smile. It was, he said, "no big deal...
...Martins tore up the college hockey world, tallying 60 points (12th best in Harvard history), making the NCAA Final Four and ending the year as a first team All-American...
However, despite the pains taken by the protesters to demonstrate without disrupting the speech, officials of the Kennedy School almost immediately removed these banners. When one banner was found to be difficult to remove from its place, the officials literally tore the banner in their haste. The banners were removed so quickly that Senator Specter never even noticed them...
...snack stand in Zagreb, when he heard the incoming rockets. He and his girlfriend Stoja Babic dived to the floor of their flimsy kiosk as more than 20 cluster bombs burst around them, wounding three customers, shattering glass, and puncturing cars as if they were made of paper. Shrapnel tore branches from trees around a nearby sandbox, where a sandcastle somehow remained intact. "My first thought was 'We're finished,' " said Babic. "I feel very, very lucky...