Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blow out both my knees right now is pretty high, so I'd better just blow my left one out again. [The surgeon] can clean it up when he goes in there to fix it." The crash went according to plan; with an awful pop, Street tore the anterior cruciate ligament. The damage-control maneuver, she explains, was just like jumping off a big roof. "You wouldn't try to land on both feet, you'd kind of slide out of it." Of course. Just like jumping off a roof...
...marched to the shelf and tore down the card, it made a loud noise ripping away from the Velcro. I hope Professor Twersky, somewhere, heard...
Minutes later Feaster tore down her sixth rebound of the game, giving her 1,000 boards in her Harvard career...
...time she had scored 10 of the team's first 18 points, the buzz was back in Lavietes. The magical bucket came when a steal by Feaster--one of seven she had in the game--ignited a mini-break by Feaster and senior guard Alison Seanor. The two namesakes tore through the lane on a two-on-one, and Seanor passed up a lay-up to give Feaster her moment...
...enrolled at City College of New York, a free school that had become a kind of immigrant Oxford. He tore through the place--nearly all A's--and finished just shy of summa cum laude. (He totaled his car shortly after getting that news from a dean. "I got a C in Faulkner," he explains today, still annoyed. "My third year speaking English, and I'm reading Faulkner!") But when he graduated in 1960, the New York Times trumpeted the success. His professors knew they'd hear from him again. "I was a little astonished by that kind of ambition...