Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roberta recalls, Cara's mother thanked her and said, "Take good care of our baby." "I said, 'Well, don't you think we've done a pretty good job in the last 2 1/2 years?' She just looked at me real funny and turned and walked away. It literally tore me to a million pieces. That she couldn't give me that much...
...stories made an activist out of a man who had stayed out of the conflicts that tore the College apart when he was a student. As a professor, he spearheaded a crusade for a University-wide rule forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...wasn't only a left-right thing. '68 reconfigured all the categories and tore up the political maps that had worked, more or less, since the time of the French Revolution. Yes, the social movements that climaxed in '68 were a "New Left," but only in the sense that, say, Rosemary's Baby (1968) was just a new member of the family. Old leftists -- communists and socialists -- responded to it, more often than not, with revulsion. In France the Communist Party did its best to isolate the young enragees. In China senior party hacks shuddered before a Cultural Revolution whose...
...ANGELES ATTORNEY MICKEY WHEATLEY HATES IN A garden is the big showy blooms that most everyone else loves. So three years ago, right after buying his first house, he set out to uproot the prize roses the previous owners had planted. While neighbors looked on in horror, he tore out the camellias too. In their place he put California poppies, fragrant sage and drought-tolerant manzanita. "Where everything is lush and green, maybe it's appropriate to grow roses," explains Wheatley. "But here it just doesn't feel right. For me it's almost a spiritual thing. The plants...
...appeared on the roof, his clothes aflame, rolling in pain. Agents moved toward him, but he waved them off. He fell off the roof, and the agents ran over, tore off his burning clothes and got him safely inside the armored vehicle...