Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This was a professional burglary. The thieves smashed a window, tore the screen, broke into a padlocked room, and tore the drum from the three-inch thick chain that bolted it to the floor," Roy McDonald '77, band manager, said yesterday...
...first half, a jumble of players battled for the ball in front of the Anchorman net before Mleczko slapped the ball home for the early lead. Later, York tore after a ball near the endline, got it ahead of the URI netminder, and drove it into the net for another tally...
...stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women's bottoms and tore open bodies. Some 500 uniformed New York police supposedly guarding the stadium had made no more than an occasional arrest by the night's stormy...
...duty cops gathered near the Americana Hotel, where the labor negotiations were going on, shouting chants, jostling pedestrians and tying up midtown traffic for three hours. Another group besieged Police Commissioner Michael Codd's home in Queens, honking horns and yelling epithets; one enthusiastic demonstrator tore the star off the shoulder of a deputy chief inspector and threw his hat and walkie-talkie underneath...
...Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple completely off its base and dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last...