Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenure offer from Harvard's English Department a few years ago tore Buell away from his Ohio home...
...least some of the bacteria, then stirring in the Unimix with wooden poles. One cook estimates that it will take 80 vats to feed everyone here this day. At least, he says, there is enough food. Two weeks before, inadequate supplies stirred the crowd into a frenzy. Mothers tore pots from starving children to feed their own. "It was terrible," recalls Dr. Ayub Sheik Yeron, the UNICEF representative who set up this feeding center last month. "When people have not eaten for three or four days, they lose control...
...second time since Andrew tore off into the Gulf of Mexico, George Bush and his entourage descended into the heat and bustle of South Florida, anxious to show their concern and capacity to make things right again. Bush promised to rebuild the gutted Homestead Air Force Base, which pumped about $400 million into the local farm-based economy, though logic suggested it should be closed. Bush also agreed to waive the normal 75-25 federal-local split on disaster costs; Washington will pick up the full...
...molestation, she made a date with the costume designer of Allen's next film -- not the behavior of a woman who believed her ex-lover and director to have preyed on her daughter. Farrow was a daft and brutal mother, the Allen camp said: she beat Soon-Yi and tore up her clothes in anger at the girl's affair. They whispered, as Soon-Yi finally said publicly, that the other children had fallen into "theft, alcohol, arrests, severe truancy and other symptoms...
...Harvard tore through the rest of the first half of the season, defeating its first six opponents by combined score of 78-28, including victories over New Hampshire and cross-town rival Boston College...