Word: tore
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...murderers; they get into the mind, under the skin, of a killer, if only to determine how the foul deed can be accomplished. Then, typically, they bring in a detective to unravel the plot and cuff the culprit. Highsmith simply ditched the civilized pretense of justice avenged. She tore the final, comeuppance chapter out of Ripley's story, left him giddy with triumph--and let him flourish in four more books. The snake, having shed its old skin, slithers away; the reader is both shocked and pleased. Crime pays...
...most tragically, the radical and implacable nationalism of Tudjman and Milosevic contributed strongly to the disintegration and bloodbath that occurred in the neighboring republic of Bosnia. With their insistence that all Croats or all Serbs be united in one unified, ethnically pure state, they and other narrow-minded leaders tore apart communities in Bosnia that had peacefully coexisted for decades...
After the third incident, when vandals tore down Muhammad's BGLTSA poster and threw themselves against his door, Mather House residents sponsored a non-discrimination pledge...
MINITEL MINI-STROKE A French psychiatrist became temporarily blind in one eye and could barely speak--classic signs of a mini-stroke--after talking on the phone for an hour with the receiver tucked between his head and neck. Physicians believe the torqued position tore a neck artery that supplies blood to the brain. It's only one case, but the rest of us can learn from it. If you cradle the receiver, be sure to switch sides or transfer it to your hand from time to time. Better yet, try a headset...
Russia balked, walked and then signed - but kept on bombing the Chechens anyway. In a somewhat confusing sequence of events at a European security summit in Istanbul Thursday, President Boris Yeltsin tore into Western critics of Moscow's military campaign in Chechnya and walked out of a discussion with European leaders on the crisis, after which his foreign minister Igor Ivanov proceeded to sign documents that conceded to some Western concerns. The Charter for European Security upholds the principle that conflicts within one signatory state are the legitimate concern of all, which means Moscow signed away its argument that...