Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the head resident of a Radcliffe dormitory tore open a plain envelope, addressed simply to "Bertram Hall." There was no explanatory letter inside, only a half dozen business cards labelled "Male Escort Bureau... escorts for all legitimate occasions." The card promised "confidential service" for a minimum...
Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While others pushed at him in terror, Charley Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved...
...curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...
Suez Replaced. The book (published in the U.S. by Putnam) went the rounds of British publishers, was rejected by some (one indignant publisher reputedly tore the book up page by page), was finally accepted by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. But W. & N. decided to hold up publication pending possible modification of Britain's vague pornography law, which gives any constable the right to seize books or have booksellers prosecuted if in his own judgment a book is obscene. Under a bill before Parliament since 1955, introduced by Author and Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins, the law would be modified to allow prosecution...
...fielded it with surprising deftness, and tore out all the pages slowly one by one. "I am eclectic. I steal from everybody," he said. "Anyway, it made the almost incredibly splendid scene. Neatoroonie...