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Word: toring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year has been a bit of a disappointment for Curtin. In a pre-season scrimmage against Brown, he tore a tendon in his right hand and was sidelined for the first six weeks of the season...

Author: By Steven M. Heller, | Title: Peter Curtin: Does 'Yeats' Rhyme With 'Cleats'? | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

...balcony. When Mike remonstrated with him, Marvin merely picked up a TV camera and shook it in Douglas' face as if it were a Brownie. Following a producer wielding a lollipop, Marvin made for the newsroom, hurled a typewriter through a partition, stomped on file cabinets and tore out acoustic tile so that he could swing on the steel beams above. His $2,700 rampage was finally stopped by a blowgun tranquilizer, and Marvin departed handcuffed to a stretcher. Said a shaken Douglas, hurriedly taking off his ape makeup: "You never know when they're going to revert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Cyprus progressed. They began even before the invasion with a July 15 picket line outside the Greek Consulate in Boston to protest the coup that overthrew Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios. At the most recent event, which took place at City Hall on August 13, a crowd of four thousand tore up a Turkish flag to protest the invasion and called for an end to U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Went On Without You | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...embassy and ambassador's residence. Shortly after noon, the demonstrators, variously estimated at from 300 to 600, arrived, carrying placards and banners that read KISSINGER-HITLER and NATO-MURDERERS OF CYPRUS. They threw rocks at the building and, climbing over the eight-foot spiked iron fence surrounding it, tore down and burned the Stars and Stripes. They then set ten cars afire in the embassy parking lot and in the street outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Death of an Ambassador | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...Bruce's performance, say the producers, is worth enduring all his vagaries. The first time out, as Bruce bloodily "tore apart" a fellow actor, even the hard-crusted crew burst into applause. On a later occasion, as Bruce "tore apart" a victim, Actor Chris Rebello, 5, playing the son of the town's police chief, burst into terrified tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Introducing Bruce | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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