Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with 18 bullets right in the chest, brrrrrrrt! So I go over to where he went down, and he's not there. I finally find his body 50 ft. away. Now it seems medically impossible he could have crawled that far with his heart and lungs tore clean out like that. But one thing you have to learn is that people don't die the way they do in John Wayne movies. It's disheartening...
...publicly held Arab land (that is, land in which proof of private ownership does not exist). That was not enough for the nationalistic Gush Emunim, which fanned out over the West Bank and set up 35 to 40 squatters' settlements in protest. Israeli troops evicted them and tore down their tents. But the Cabinet's move to expand the seven settlements brought a stinging blast from Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil...
After a series of inflammatory antigovernment rallies, 3,000 university students tore through the streets of Pusan last week, attacking government offices with rocks and fire bombs and battling police far into the night. The Seoul government denied student claims that five demonstrators had been killed, but admitted that six, along with 73 policemen, had been injured. Six police cars and 21 sentry boxes were destroyed. The eight-hour rampage, which followed several other clashes the night before, was the most serious outbreak of rioting in South Korea since the student rebellion that overthrew President Syngman Rhee...
...Panamanians were urged by radio, proclamation and word of mouth to enter the zone and attend a rally at the field of Albrook Air Force Station. There were a handful of anti-American outbursts; shortly after midnight on the day of the turnover, a small band of poor Panamanians tore up an American flag...
...freighter onto a pier in Mobile Bay and blew a DC-3 half a mile from a hangar to a road, where it landed upside down with its tail curled around its fuselage. Frederic uprooted century-old oak trees and heavily damaged historic buildings along Government Street. It tore the roofs off houses on the nearby resort of Dauphin Island and carried away most of the eight-mile causeway to the mainland. Lamented one Mobile resident: "Landmarks we have known for years just aren't here any more...