Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home to his Mom." He went underground instead. When De Valera's Fianna Fail Party assumed power in 1932, Lemass became the youngest member of the Cabinet. As Prime Minister he tore away at the economic aspects of what he called the Green Curtain-the high tariffs and low level of industrialization that had impeded Ireland's development...
...lesson of the worst postwar money crisis is that the non-Communist world is running out of time in which to repair its financial system. The speculative explosion that tore through the banks and bourses two weeks ago demonstrated that permitting the system to lurch from one upheaval to another is no longer a workable policy. The world's financial and political leaders have two choices. They can unite on basic updating and reform of the rules that have promoted the free exchange of goods, tourists and money across national borders. Or they can retreat to competing nationalistic policies...
...assassins of WWD who tore into 25-year-old Tricia Nixon had better wake up. She looks charmingly attractive, beautifully wholesome, and deliciously desirable. Another girl the same age wearing the same outfit might look ten years older and disgustingly blase. WWD ate sour grapes, and their teeth are on edge...
...plastic worms off the bottom, I had a strike that seemed to turn the boat around. When I set the hook, it felt like there was an anvil on the other end. Diving and circling the boat, the enormous thing finally came boiling out of the water. Then it tore off for a weed bed and snapped the 20-lb. test line like a kite string. That evening under the oaks I told of my adventure with a "lunker as big as a beer barrel in this special hole in the backwaters." "Where's the hole?" one fisherman asked...
Three years ago junior Ray Peters tore the Eastern League apart and led the Crimson to the NCAA World Series. Unfortunately for Park, Peters was so good that he accepted a contract with the Seattle Pilots the next spring and commuted to Cambridge for hour exams and finals...