Word: tore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, one W. E. Praudweine, knife in hand, set after a large turkey. The bird, angered, kicked the knife into Praudweine's arm, severing an artery. Then it leaped upon the bleeding man, viciously tore his shirt to tatters...
...slouched one half million years ago, into a limestone cave 30 miles from what is now Peiping (Peking), China. He died. Another one lumbered in and naturally ate the corpse, probably with some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head presumably was especially tasty, for the eater, it now seems, tore it from the body, gnawed it and threw it away to disintegrate. The second comer died; a third, a fourth, a succession of ten. The last decayed with his head in place...
...first, tense pose, ordered a dozen copies. The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow. A trick of light made the chair arm look like a broad, naked knife in Banker Morgan's hand. Banker Morgan looked at this picture, tore it in shreds...
...stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed and drowned; hundreds maimed and mauled; 500 homes, 100 fishing boats and 26 schooners smashed; 70 miles of coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake shook ships. Nine of the 21 cables across the North Atlantic tore apart. Cable repair boats, always waiting for trouble, sped from ports to a point about 900 miles northeast of Manhattan. The breaks were found by exact instruments which measure the resistance of a continuous electrical conductor. Great grappling hooks groped for the cables on the sea floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics...
...passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully...