Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wichita Falls (pop. 100,000) was hardest hit by far. There three tornadoes joined together, creating a huge funnel with winds estimated at 225 m.p.h. It sucked up roofs, tore huge limbs from trees, and lifted the debris as high as half a mile into the sky. Said Roy Styles: "I crawled under a mattress, and that's all that saved me because the walls fell in." Cindy Trott, 22, fled to a science building at Midwestern State University for safety. Said she: "It didn't look like a tornado until it got up close to you. Then...
...eight hours. In Paris, a bomb exploded in a Jewish student restaurant, injuring 26, and two explosions in Israel killed one bystander and wounded 28. Still another bomb damaged the Israeli mission in Ankara. Even in Peking, a band Palestinian students marched on of the Egyptian embassy, smashed windows, tore down a portrait of Sadat and injured several Chinese soldiers...
During the late stages of the Viet Nam War, military conscription was so despised by so many Americans that it spawned a new class of nonviolent criminals: young men who tore up draft cards or fled to Canada or Sweden to avoid induction. Since then, the U.S. has shifted to an all-volunteer force, and no one has been called up since 1972. But last week Congress reluctantly was again considering reinstating the draft, or at least some of its preliminary steps...
...Fanny on a quick trip to Yenice, hoping to feed on her vitality and youth, and gets the callow treatment he deserves. Stung, he returns home and holes up for a long, bitter winter of dis content: "He fought winter as if it were the true enemy: if he tore into it the freeze would vanish, his ills be gone, his life, his work, fall into place." Nothing helps. Lawrence eludes the biographer, and the book grinds to a stop. Dubin's wife Kitty is jittery about becoming older; she misses the son and daughter who have grown...
...Death to the Shah!" shouted 500 protesters, punctuating that now familiar chant with sticks and rocks hurled toward the elegant hillside mansion. Then out came the torches. Two cars were burned, and at least a dozen other fires ignited. When a police car arrived on the scene, it tore into the crowd at an estimated 35 m.p.h., knocking one woman onto the car's hood and carrying her for more than 20 ft. Eventually, police armed with tear gas, billy clubs and fire hoses broke...