Word: tore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other students said that Corrigan's statement did not signify progress. After the spokesman read the response to those who were picketing one student snatched the letter and tore it up while the rest of the students shouted "rhetoric...
...right up your ass with the rest of the rig," he said with the deep blue lights of the runway shining in his eyes. He drew the throttle back. The lights turned a thinner blue, and the g's shot my head into its rest, as the Lear tore out of Michigan and ripped to 40,000 feet...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Harkensson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
...there were some startling crosscurrents. At Columbia University, a score of students tore down a placard reading DRAFTED that had been placed by protesters around the neck of a statue of their alma mater. They draped her in a U.S. flag. The draft resisters charged, and the two groups briefly engaged in some pushing and shoving. Students polled...
...same grandiose economic plans and spending that tore apart Iranian society and drove the Shah from power now threaten other conservative societies in the Persian Gulf. These oil-producing states have spent most of their revenues on the ambitious development of petrochemical and other heavy, "prestige" industries, to the neglect of traditional economic activities, like fishing, agriculture and cattle-raising, which would distribute oil wealth more widely. As an article in The New York Times recently noted, "with that neglect came the disruption of the lifestyle of large segments of the population, particularly of the Bedouins, who are the backbone...