Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they had to take it through a window. . . . In their haste they knocked down gas pipes, tore holes in water lines and upset the electric wiring. They got the safe out, but left a lot of repair work to be done...
...steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore up the grandstands. U.C.L.A.'s rooters, who last year had a Rose Bowl team, behave better...
Pregame fever reached the near-boiling point last night as 1500 vociferous Crimson followers all but tore down the doors of the Indoor Athletic Building in the season's first grid rally. Head-cheerleader Gerry Spear called the torchlight rally "one of the biggest in University history...
...legend came to an abrupt end when the Bolsheviks tore down Jenny...
...tale. The Revolution once more made it the capital of Russia. Once more, the country's tyrants dwelt in the Kremlin. With the new masters came symbols of the age that produced them-factories (steel, machine tools, electric equipment, autos, locomotives). The Communist planners went to work, tore down whole sections, built new functional concrete palaces...