Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told the police in stilted English, "He always have orgasm, and he doesn't wait for me to have orgasm. He's selfish." John's defense attorney Gregory Murphy noted, "That doesn't sound like the statement of a woman who has been raped." Lorena also claimed that John tore off her underpants; one expert said the 8-inch tear in the undergarment indicated the use of force, and another countered that the rip had been start ed with scissors. The jury noted that Lorena didn't scream during the alleged rape and that she showed no signs of forcible...
...When I tore my ACL [anterior-cruciate ligament], people told me I shouldn't play, so I decided I'd do it," he said. "Things have turned out very well for me. It's been a great season...
...helicopter and literally took off its tail. The crash was extremely violent; I think I have compressed my spinal cord. After the crash, a crew member took me out of the helicopter . . . then ((the Somalis)) came in masses. They beat me violently with their fists and with sticks. They tore off all my clothes." Naked, blindfolded, his hands bound, Durant was carried triumphantly above the heads of raging crowds, and "I was still being hit but less brutally. I understood then that someone had decided that they wanted me alive." He came to doubt that a bit later when...
Despite Clinton's first step toward addressing the deficit issue in his 1993 budget agreement, the Lead of Leave organization firmly believes that the deficit will continue to be an important issue. The parochial interests which tore away much of the fabric of Clinton's plan within his own party and Vice-President Gore's needed tiebreaker vote point to the problems inherent in future deficit reduction...
...disagreements that tore the school apart over the 1987 vote to deny Dalton tenure still exist, as professors heave a sigh of relief at not having to defend their old decisions in front of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination...