Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wave after wave of Stukas and Junkers-88s came over, hour after hour, day after day. They had fighter protection, but they were careless of losses. Malta's fighters, Hurricanes and Spitfires, tore into the attackers. The anti-aircraft batteries opened up full blast. The guns of navy ships in the harbor joined in. "The thunderous noise," said a London report, "was indescribable...
...there is nothing funny about West Virginia's performance. In the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden which ended last week, little Hicks whisked in shot after shot from mid-floor, fat Hamilton tore around like a wide-open fire engine setting up plays in rich profusion, Kesling was superb at swooping through and sinking layups, and at tournament's end the assembled coaches voted Baric the most valuable player on any of the eight teams competing...
...game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn't even get to the doors to pound. Filled with a cub's do-or-die spirit, he climbed through a window and tore his pants. That clinched it. Why shouldn't basketball get a better break...
...tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were manufactured on the spot from the same pick-up materials...
After a swipe at "the skillful work" Washington did for the auto industry in publicizing its curtailment plans ("a cash value of hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased sales") Editor Elhart tore into the subject of fabric conservation. He wrote...