Word: tore
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...think it's definitely going to get everyone's attention," onlooker Christopher M. Colosi '03 said, laughing as Cho tore off his sweatpants to reveal tight DHA briefs...
...tone of voice you might use to, say, denounce a terrorist attack on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. When Brafman began his queries, the courtroom took on a kind of off-Broadway feeling, as if one was watching a performance instead of a legal proceeding. He tore into Fenderson's account of Puffy allegedly slipping in a gun in his waistband on the night of the shooting. "Wasn't [Combs] wearing a fur coat?" Brafman barked. Later Brafman added "You ever try getting out of a fur coat sitting in a car?" Many of Brafman's questions...
...Aquino tore up the Philippine constitution when she ousted Marcos, claiming he had rewritten it too many times to suit his dictatorship. That was true, but her act planted a seed of constitutional disregard. On several occasions in the 1990s, Aquino and Sin called people onto the streets to defend the new constitution. The reason: Fidel Ramos, Aquino's successor, was allegedly trying to amend the charter to allow himself a second term. Aquino and Sin didn't like that idea, and they used a mini-People Power movement to stop it. Their rallying cry: the constitution...
...minor flaws in the mothering department. I'm not referring to any particular instances, because no one can prove I ever served chocolate doughnuts as an entree, condoned a makeup-and-manicure-theme birthday party or yelled, "I hope you have daughters someday!" at one of mine who tore a big hole in my favorite pair of black tights. But I think it's evident there will be enough ground to cover...
...Many familiar themes resurfaced as the senators tore into Ashcroft's handling of Justice Ronnie White's nomination for the federal bench, his refusal to meet with James Hormel when he was nominated as ambassador to Luxembourg and his unapologetic interest in finding loopholes in Roe v. Wade...