Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II, a giant 110-ft, 1,250-kilowatt wind-driven generator built on a hill called Grandpa's Knob outside Rutland, Vt., created a flurry of renewed interest in wind power -until one of the monster machine's eight-ton blades, weakened by metal fatigue, tore off and hurtled 750 ft. into the air before crash-landing...
...programs moving again. While Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was in Paris urging a new conference of oil producers and consumers, President Ford took to national television and ripped into the Democratic-controlled Congress for doing nothing but "drift, dawdle and debate" on domestic energy policy. The President theatrically tore leaves off a calendar to demonstrate that he had been waiting since February for some sort of energy legislation. He then announced that he would go ahead with his own controversial, twice postponed plan to hike energy costs in an effort to curb demand and make the nation less dependent...
Whistled and waned--outside the torches tore...
...competence of the U.S. to act as a judicial body evaluating the merits of individual Vietnamese. The real problem is whether or not the U.S. will divert its humanitarian efforts away from what should be their real focus--the reconstruction of the land we ravaged and the people we tore apart--to the comforting of the defeated lieutenants who carried out our policies. That would only compound our already grievous record of injury to the Vietnamese people...
...Doug Lamear urged the Blazers to exchange one famous vegetarian for another by trading Walton "for Euell Gibbons and a six-pack of carrot juice." That just might be a good deal. Walton, who missed 47 of the Blazers' 82 games this season because of a foot injury, tore ligaments in his left ankle during a pickup basketball game last week and was reassigned to a cast for the offseason...