Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purposeful, he tore through the gale at 100 miles an hour?finally sighting and circling over Ocotal. "Click" went the small, simple mechanism of his bomb release. Far below, masses of men became suddenly red, formless and conglomerate. Within half an hour a flock of black vultures were coasting down through the hot, cruel...
Certain detectives sent to "take Jesse James dead or alive" adopted the questionable expedient of tossing a bomb into his house which killed his youngest brother and tore off the arm of his mother, this at a time when Jesse was some miles distant. Thereafter Jesse considered that society had defied him to do his worst and he did it. He was shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward...
...Patrick surrendered his whole attention to the sick man. The train tore westward. The bald, intense man wrote out a telegram to Mrs. Albert Patrick of Marceline...
Bull & Dog Near Oregon, Ill., Farmer William P. Pierce dropped the dog he was intending to kill for constantly stealing eggs, when a bull attacked him. Neighbors turned away, sickened as the bull knocked the man to earth. But the convicted dog set at the huge beast, tore at him, until he turned from the man, to chase after the dog. Farmer Pierce may live. Bull & Girl...
...usurper of those jewels, Lord Elgin, was not content with many masterpieces alone, but tore away and transported to England one of the six caryatids and one of the six columns of the eastern portico of the Erechtheum." The writer bitterly asks the British Government to restore these two pieces, adding that he knows it would be useless to claim the heart of the collection...