Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel (clearly autobiographical, though unnecessary pains are taken to conceal the most obvious identities) opens, Randy Harris, the main character, finds himself in an encounter group, during which he is required to undress. Randy, childhood victim of an uncle who once exclaimed "Got your nose" and unmercifully tore it from his face, is forced to deal with his uncovered rig as well as his intimidating appearance. In one of the most brutal moments of contemporary fiction, Randy comes to understand both his vulnerability as well as a higher reality which is blind to physical difference...
...remember the draft board assaults, these men and their accomplices did do violence. They terrorized the personnel, committed arson, tore up property, poured blood around, and generally acted like hoodlums and vandals. I hold that violence, like virginity and pregnancy, is not subject to degree...
...point during the contempt hearings, anarchy erupted. Three raucous defendants hurled a flag at the bench and screamed: "That's the flag that ought to be there next to you-the Nazi flag!" The disrupters even tore up their contempt citations...
...escaped fairly intact, minus a few shades and windows. One punchee was less fortunate as his hosts and friends tore his tuxedo off. Another punchee dropped his trousers and urinated on the seats...
POINT by point, the Communist negotiators tore apart Richard Nixon's latest peace plan to end the Viet Nam War. Almost with relish, they announced in the baroque grand ballroom of Paris' Majestic Hotel last week their "total and categorical" rejection of the five-point program. Nonetheless, Chief U.S. Negotiator David Bruce patiently replied that the U.S. "will not take your comments today as your final position" and that "all proposals, yours as well as our own," are still open to discussion. Thus Nixon's program and an eight-point plan submitted by the Viet Cong...