Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caught for the score that kept Yale from being whitewashed in a game which ended 38-to-7. Intoxicated by an undefeated football season and Princeton's most crushing defeat of Yale in the history of the 62-year-old series, a swarm of Princeton rooters prematurely tore down both goal posts long before the game was over, almost made way with the ball after a placement kick, were roundly booed from the Yale stands...
...refresh his memory, he agreed. Frisch was taken to a hospital, given four hypodermic injections of 1/150 grains each. For three hours he was incoherent. Then he revealed that he had downed several drinks with Mrs. Harlass, tried to quiet her when she became boisterous, struck and choked her, tore her clothes. When she fell, cracked her head against a metal bedpost and lost consciousness, Frisch tried to revive her by biting her, failed, remained several hours, departed. What he did not tell while under the influence of scopolamine was that he had imitated a woman's voice when...
Sweeping aside Kingstown's few policemen, hoodlums tore through the streets, caught Governor Grier squarely in front of the courthouse. Only by promising to meet and talk with the strike leaders was Sir Selwyn released, but jabbering blacks wrecked his car as well as those of Supreme Court Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross...
...this time somebody had sent for the Marines and volunteer constables were being hastily armed with pistols. The mob swept on out of town, barricaded the road with uprooted telephone poles, tore down the bridge at Camden Park and separated the Leeward and Windward sides of the island. Grocery stores, plantations and homes, including those of Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross, were looted. In Kingstown, a burst of rifle fire from the police killed three natives, wounded eight. Next morning into the harbor steamed H. M. S. Challenger, and in a jiffy a landing party of Royal Marines were...
...Bruno Richard Hauptmann; by Fleurette Reilly, 31, his fifth wife (according to Fleurette Reilly) ; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: abusive treatment, drunkenness, "association with women of lewd and questionable habits.'' Lawyer Reilly had previously filed a separation suit of his own, charging that his wife tore his clothes, broke his glasses...