Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard travels to New Jersey on Sunday to take on the lowly Scarlet Knights. Last year, the Crimson tore apart Rutgers...
Side by side, they survived hardships that tore apart nations...
...struck -- deliberately, she claims -- by a driver behind the wheel of a Trabant, the flimsiest vehicle on four wheels. "If it had been a real car, I wouldn't be here," she can now joke. But even Trabants are tougher than bikes, and Boerner broke an ankle and tore ligaments in her knee, which sent her to a hospital for months...
Fighting started in a section of the camp between Vietnamese northerners and those from the south, who are normally held separately in the camps because of their longstanding political and cultural antagonisms. As police began arriving in force, 2,000 southern Vietnamese in an adjacent section tore down a 17-ft. wire-mesh fence and joined the fray. Panicked northerners sought refuge in a corrugated-steel dormitory. Their attackers began burning blankets and stuffing them through windows, setting fire to the building. The eventual toll: 23 burned alive or suffocated, including 10 children, and 125 injured, some of them seriously...
...curtain rises, the star is standing at the barre, one foot waggling over the horizontal. The problem, she announces, is how men and women might dance together since the twist tore them forever out of each other's arms. "The twist," she observes, "was an unforgiving movement" in which the body got stuck, first on one side, then on the other. A hilarious demonstration proves the point...