Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tore ourselves to bits over whether it might be necessary to interfere with that," Maass said. Conservatives were being forced to set priorities-departmental autonomy versus "academic excellence" -and the conflict did not help Faculty member relations...
RADICAL bombers have become rather sophisticated with explosives in the past few months, but on this occasion their timer was off. At 3:42 a.m., less than two minutes after police in Madison, Wis., received the telephone warning, a blast tore through the University of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall, destroying the math center and parts of the school's physics and astronomy departments. In the wreckage were the center's computer, valued at about $500,000, the lifework of five physics professors and the doctoral research of 24 Ph.D. candidates. And because the warning came too late...
...apparent that many Southerners were convinced that Nixon holds no grudge against them, despite the purpose of his trip. Nearly 100,000 of them jammed the city's streets, many of them in the carnival-like French Quarter, to watch his open car pass. They pressed close, tore off his cuff links, cheered him warmly...
...lead, lost it, and then regained it by cutting up-and across the infield-thoroughly disqualifying themselves. Second behind Smothers and his partner Bobby Unser came Astronaut Pete Conrad and Mario Andretti. Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted it out of the pits so furiously that he tore up his car's transmission. But the whole race was so casual that for once Parnelli Jones, Newman's co-driver, did not seem to mind losing...
...Hammond could raise for the session was $150 for Bessie ($37.50 for each of the four sides she cut), and $150 split among such sidemen as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden and Chu Berry. Still, the session meant a lot to Bessie, and she showed it by the way she tore into Down in the Dumps...