Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Train wrecking is only one of their stratagems. For the most part they organize "thieving parties" to carry off rails and telephone poles. Some 200 farmers near Paoting, 90 miles south of Peiping, devote two nights a week to demolition work. In one night they can tear up and hide ten rails, chop down 28 poles...
...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
...with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive, an automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between 23 and 35 m. p. h., cutting the motor speed down almost to that of the drive shaft. Not the same as freewheeling, the overdrive provides free-rolling efficiency while still retaining the braking power...
...Thorndike gave out a few pointers about his on-the-field technique. He watches each play closely. "My interest is in seeing whether they get up." It they don't, or if Green signals, he rushes out as quickly as possible. "I tear out," he says simply. He wears the large black coat principally because it has huge pockets in which lots of adhesive tape may be kept. Keeping things from falling out of the pockets makes him run so stiffly. The player injured will usually have a contusion, abrasion, laceration, sprain, strain, or sometimes a fracture or dislocation...
...invaders knocked their way in, they saw Mrs. Barnett at the top of the stairs, brandishing a hatchet. "Get out of here, you gangsters!" shrilled fat Mrs. Barnett. Seeing two women deputies, she screamed: "And keep your old fish hags out of here, too." Blinded by a whiff of tear gas. she hurled the hatchet downstairs before the deputies grabbed her. In the house Marshal Clark found Mrs. Maxine Sturgis, her daughter by her first husband, no dynamite but a large, menacing supply of jagged stones. Homeless Mrs. Barnett and daughter, still protesting, were bundled off to jail to face...