Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season the subject of running was rarely mentioned in the Patton home. Mel never read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...
Balcony Rescue. When Joe Louis pulled up in front of Harlem's Theresa Hotel after the fight, 10,000 hysterical admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...
...Wimbledon, wearing a new crew haircut (he once used ribbons to tie up his blond thatch), Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 23, tore into top-seeded Frank Parker. It produced the tennis upset of the year. Down went Parker, in five sets. But Bergelin's new look wasn't enough to get him by hard-hitting Bob Falkenburg in the quarterfinals. The Swede fell before Falkenburg's big serve...
...House Divided. In Montgomery, Ala., Henry and Bertha Williams separated as they had agreed to: he tore down his half of the house and carted it away...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...