Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stream that slammed cold Canadian air against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister hit their mobile home. She was found 40 minutes later in the underbrush, wet and scratched -- but alive...
...Harvard win seemed guaranteed by junior Brian Farrell seven minutes into the second when he tore through two defenders and gave Captain Ted Drury the honor of placing the sugar-coated puck on the top-shelf...
With 18 seconds remaining in the third quarter and Harvard up 14-0, Yale's only weapon, tall junior tailback Keith Price, looked ready to jump-start the Eli's broken-down wishbone. He tore up the massive hole in the left side and drove up. Price pumped his long, lean legs, while Harvard junior James Ellis did what he's done all season: played catch-up and won. He clipped Price's knees and the junior stumbled onto the four yard line...
...sing the Bob Marley song you had performed when you tore up the Pope's picture instead of doing the Dylan song you had originally planned...
...sequence of events that Dwight Eisenhower had in mind in 1954 when he propounded the domino theory, the rationale for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. Instead, the violent feuding among the region's Marxist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s in a way anticipated the quarrels that later tore apart communist Europe...